Dave Lee Travis 'Knew Savile Liked Young Girls'

By Nick Pisa, Sky News Reporter

Former DJ Dave Lee Travis told police investigating sex allegations against him that everyone "knew Jimmy Savile liked young girls," a court has heard.

Travis, 68, told officers from Operation Yewtree what he knew of the disgraced and now dead fellow broadcaster, when he was questioned during the inquiry against him.

He said he had thought "good luck to him", regarding Savile's attitude to young girls but did not realise they were under-age.

The jury at Southwark Crown Court heard Prosecutor Teresa Hay read out statements Travis made in a series of four interviews with police from November 2012 to September last year.

He was questioned by Metropolitan Police Detective Sergeant Gary Pankhurst, of Operation Yewtree, which is investigating Savile and others linked with him or independent of him.

Ms Hay said that in his statement, Travis said: "I saw Savile once or twice a year but I didn't know him. He put up a verbal wall, no one got any sense out of him and I never had a full conversation with him.

Dave Lee Travis arrives for Friday's Southwark Crown Court hearing

"We didn't keep in touch, he was a colleague but not a friend. People knew he liked young girls but not below the official age, when it came out, like others I was horrified.

"If had known I would have reported him. I was genuinely shocked."

In all his interviews Travis, who is appearing in court under his real name David Griffin, denied the allegations against him insisting they were "made up for money" although he admitted he could be tactile at times.

He said he would have been "insane" and a "complete moron" to assault his victims in the BBC studios as has been claimed earlier in the trial, adding that people in his industry "were now targets".

He told police he had been through "three months of hell" after the allegations were first made and asked why his victims had gone to the papers first and not the police, telling officers "it's a money grabbing culture".

Ms Hay said that in another interview Travis again strenuously denied all the allegations and said: "Stuff went on in the 70s, it was a different time. I didn't do drugs, unlike others back then, I'm scared of drugs. I'm no angel but this is just not on."

He told police he had a "rock solid marriage" and added that he "very young girls were not him." Of one allegation from a then 15-year-old girl he is accused of indecently assaulting in a trailer, he said: "She has an active imagination."

As the statements were read out Travis, sat in the dock, dressed in a blazer, white shirt and tie followed closely a copy that he had in his hands.

He denies 13 charges of indecent assault between 1976 and 2003 and a charge of sexual assault in 2008.

The trial at Southwark Crown Court continues with his defence due to begin on Monday.

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