BBC 'edited out footage of DLT groping girl of 17'

The BBC edited out images that showed Dave Lee Travis molesting
a 17-year-old girl during the filming of Top Of The Pops

The BBC edited out images that showed Dave Lee Travis molesting a 17-year-old girl during the filming of Top Of The Pops, it was claimed in court yesterday.

Footage of the presenter groping the teenager on a June 1978 episode of the music programme was ‘shrunk’ as if  to get rid of the offending scenes, a  jury was told.

As Travis introduced a novelty song by The Smurfs, with a female audience member on either side of him, he slipped his hand up one girl’s skirt and ‘had a fumble’ of her bottom, it was alleged.

The presenter then tried to force his hand into the teenager’s underwear, making her feel ‘violated’, the jury heard.

But when Top Of The Pops was broadcast later that week, the clip had been cut just as the sexual assault began, it was claimed.

Giving evidence from behind a curtain  yesterday, the alleged victim said that if viewers had seen all the footage it would have been ‘quite obvious’ that she was being sexually assaulted.  (more...)

BBC 'edited out footage of DLT groping girl of 17'

Background:

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