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The jury in the sex abuse trial of the former BBC broadcaster Dave Lee Travis has retired to consider its verdicts. | The jury in the sex abuse trial of the former BBC broadcaster Dave Lee Travis has retired to consider its verdicts. |
Mr Travis is being retried on one count of indecent assault of a woman between November 1990 and January 1991, and sexual assault of another complainant between June and November 2008. | Mr Travis is being retried on one count of indecent assault of a woman between November 1990 and January 1991, and sexual assault of another complainant between June and November 2008. |
A jury was unable to reach verdicts on those charges at an earlier trial. | A jury was unable to reach verdicts on those charges at an earlier trial. |
The DJ is also accused of a further indecent assault alleged to have taken place in 1995. He denies all charges. | The DJ is also accused of a further indecent assault alleged to have taken place in 1995. He denies all charges. |
Mr Travis is on trial under his real name David Griffin, and all three charges against him relate to women. | |
On Wednesday Judge Anthony Leonard told the jury - made up of six women and six men - at London's Southwark Crown Court not to be swayed in their decision by other recent cases involving celebrities. | |
He said there was "no guilt or innocence by association". | |
The defendant from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire was a DJ on BBC Radio 1 until 1993, and was also a regular host of Top of the Pops. |