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| Dave Lee Travis sentence to be reviewed | |
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| The three-month suspended sentence given to former BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis is to be reviewed by the attorney general's office. | |
| The 69-year-old was sentenced on Friday after being found guilty of indecently assaulting a TV researcher on the Mrs Merton Show in 1995. | |
| The attorney general's office said four people had complained later that day that the sentence was "unduly lenient". | |
| It will now consider whether to refer the sentence to the court of appeal. | |
| A spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said: "We will be asking the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) to send us more information on this particular case so that a law officer (the attorney general or solicitor general) can decide if the sentence should be referred to the Court of Appeal." | |
| Attorney General Jeremy Wright MP and Solicitor General Robert Buckland MP have until 24 October to decide whether or not to refer the case. | |
| Travis, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was cleared of an alleged indecent assault from 1990, and an alleged sexual assault from 2008. | |
| He was being retried on those two charges after jurors could not reach a verdict on them earlier this year. | |
| Travis was cleared of 12 indecent assault charges during the earlier trial. |