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Former Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning admits further sexual offences against children
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 23 August 2016
Former Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning has pleaded guilty to 21 sexual offences against eleven boys between 1969 and 1986. He is already serving thirteen years in prison for sexual assaults against 24 children.
As previously reported, Denning, who was part of the original line-up of Radio 1 presenters and left the station after two years, pleaded guilty two years ago to 29 offences involving boys aged from nine to sixteen between 1964 and 1987.
The conviction stems from the Operation Yewtree investigation launched in the wake of the posthumous allegations of sexual assault made against Jimmy Savile. He has previously also been jailed in the UK, the Czech Republic and Slovakia for sexual offences against children.
The latest charges arose during a separate investigation by Surrey Police into the Walton Hop Disco for teenagers in Walton-on-Thames between 1958 and 2001. Detective Chief Inspector Jo Hayes told the BBC: “Denning, who was looked up to and sometimes idolised by many young people, has used his status to prey on innocent children which he has now admitted to. We can never go back and take away the abuse these … men suffered as boys but I hope, in some way, today’s guilty plea brings some closure for them”.
Denning denied three other charges, but will not face trial for those. He will be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on 6 Oct.
