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LONDON: British radio presenter Dave Lee Travis on Friday protested his innocence following his arrest for sexual offences, after his employers said he was being taken off the air with immediate effect.
Travis, who counts Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi among his fans, was arrested on Thursday as part of a police investigation into allegations of child sex abuse against his late colleague Jimmy Savile.
There is no suggestion that Travis, 67, had anything to do with child abuse, however, and he repeated that assertion to reporters gathered outside his home near Leighton Buzzard, northwest of London.
Two women have alleged in recent weeks that he groped them in the 1970s, but he strongly denied this.
“This is nothing to do with kids, all right? That’s the first thing. Because that to me is the most important thing in the world and I do not wish to have my name sullied around something that bloody evil, to be honest,” Travis said.
“The second thing I want is to say, yes, there’s a complete denial there, but there’s nothing else I can tell you because otherwise I might be stepping on the police’s feet and I don’t want to do that because it might affect their investigations.”
Travis, who counts Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi among his fans, was arrested on Thursday as part of a police investigation into allegations of child sex abuse against his late colleague Jimmy Savile.
There is no suggestion that Travis, 67, had anything to do with child abuse, however, and he repeated that assertion to reporters gathered outside his home near Leighton Buzzard, northwest of London.
Two women have alleged in recent weeks that he groped them in the 1970s, but he strongly denied this.
“This is nothing to do with kids, all right? That’s the first thing. Because that to me is the most important thing in the world and I do not wish to have my name sullied around something that bloody evil, to be honest,” Travis said.
“The second thing I want is to say, yes, there’s a complete denial there, but there’s nothing else I can tell you because otherwise I might be stepping on the police’s feet and I don’t want to do that because it might affect their investigations.”
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