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DLT left “financially ruined” by indecent and sexual assault cases
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 24 April 2015
Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis says that the various long-drawn out legal battles he has had to fight amidst various allegations of indecent and sexual assault have left him “financially ruined”.
As previously reported, Travis was cleared of twelve charges of indecent assault in February last year, and of a further count of indecent assault and one of sexual assault in September. But he was found guilty of an additional allegation of indecent assault, added by the prosecution between the two trials, and was given a three month suspended sentence for that crime.
The former DJ’s lawyer revealed his client’s financial woes yesterday while making an application for the court to cover some costs, noting that – while Travis was convicted on one charge – “all of the allegations from trial one were found in his favour”. Adding that he was now working for Travis pro bono, lawyer Stephen Vullo said of DLT, according to the Mirror: “He has no money left whatsoever. He is now below zero. He lives in a house owned by his wife … he has been financially devastated by this”.
The judge awarded Travis travel costs, but limited to the value of a return train ticket and £50 taxi costs per day the DJ spent in court. Some of Vullo’s expenses will also be covered, even though prosecutor Joshua Munro argued the costs were not “reasonable” expenses for the taxpayer to fund.
