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Dave Lee Travis sentence reviewed for undue leniency following complaints
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 30 September 2014
The Attorney General’s Office is considering complaints that Dave Lee Travis’s three month suspended sentence for indecent assault was too lenient.
As previously reported, Travis, real name David Griffin, was last week convicted of indecently assaulting a researcher on ‘The Mrs Merton Show’ in 1995. He was also found not guilty of another count of indecent assault, while the jury was unable to reach a conclusion on a sexual assault charge. He was previously acquitted of twelve other sexual offence charges.
In sentencing the presenter last week, the judge took into account the length of time the case had taken to work its way through the courts, despite Griffin’s co-operation throughout, and other financial and health factors as mitigating circumstances. But this ruling, and the resulting sentence, has seemingly met with some disapproval.
A spokesperson for the Attorney General told CMU: “I can confirm that the sentence handed to David Griffin (also known as Dave Lee Travis) has been referred to the Attorney General’s Office under the unduly lenient sentence scheme. It only takes one person to trigger the process, and there is a strict 28 day time period, which means the Law Officers have until Friday 24 Oct to consider whether they wish to refer the sentence to the Court Of Appeal”.