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| Dave Lee Travis trial: DJ 'fumbled girl on TV show' | Dave Lee Travis trial: DJ 'fumbled girl on TV show' |
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| DJ Dave Lee Travis "had a fumble" up the skirt of a teenage pop music fan as he presented an episode of Top Of The Pops, a London court has heard. | |
| The woman said she was 17 when Travis indecently assaulted her at the BBC studios in Shepherd's Bush in 1978. | |
| She told Southwark Crown Court she had been wearing an off-the-shoulder top and a ra-ra skirt at the time. | |
| Mr Travis, 68, whose real name is David Griffin, denies 13 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. | Mr Travis, 68, whose real name is David Griffin, denies 13 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. |
| 'Biggest names' | |
| The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court she was called over by a member of the studio crew to be on television as Travis introduced the next band. | |
| "He [Mr Travis) put his arm around myself and pulled me towards him. It was cosy on screen," she said. | |
| "Then he slipped his hand down and put it up my skirt. The skirt would have been lifted from the back. | |
| "I can only really describe it as having a fumble of my bottom area. I think he was trying to get into my underwear." | |
| Footage of the alleged incident was played to the jury. The witness said Mr Travis was then "one of the biggest names on Radio 1". | |
| 'Felt violated' | |
| She said the footage cut just as she began to "grimace" - evidence, she said, that she was being assaulted by the presenter. | |
| "That's why I couldn't comprehend what was going on. I felt really uncomfortable. I think I just stood there," she said. | |
| The woman said she could not remember how the incident ended. | |
| "I felt violated. The main thing is the camera crew was there, in front of all these people - that's what made it uncomfortable," she said. | |
| Mr Travis is charged with counts of indecent assault between 1976 and 2003, and a sexual assault in 2008. | |
| The 68-year-old, from Buckinghamshire, is accused of assaulting 11 women, one of whom was 15 at the time of the alleged crime. | |
| The trial will continue on Monday. |