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Former radio DJ and Savile associate in court over rape charges

By | Published on Wednesday 8 October 2014

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A former radio DJ and friend of Jimmy Savile was in Manchester Crown Court (pictured) yesterday to face eighteen charges of rape and other related offences.

Another case stemming from the flood of posthumous revelations about Savile’s crimes, though this one directly linked to his activities, Ray Teret went on trial yesterday along with two other men, William Harper and Alan Ledger.

Teret met Savile in the early 1960s at a singing competition organised by the latter, and they subsequently shared a Manchester flat together. Teret became a DJ on pirate station Radio Caroline, and later presented shows for various commercial radio stations, mainly in North West England, including for Piccadilly Radio in Manchester and Signal Radio in Stoke On Trent.

Teret is accused of exploiting the minor celebrity status his radio work rewarded him, and his association with Savile, to assault young girls. One of the assaults described in court yesterday involved him taking a fifteen year old girl to his flat, where first Savile raped her, and then Teret.

Prosecutor Tim Evans told the court: “The Crown’s case in a nutshell is that he used the celebrity that he had to abuse young girls in various ways and that the other two defendants – Mr Ledger and Mr Harper – friends and associates of Teret – also became involved on occasions”.

Noting the association with Savile, Evans added: “This is not guilt by association and that sort of notion plays no part in this trial”, stressing that Teret was wholly guilty in his own right of taking advantage of teenage girls who were flattered that a DJ was showing them attention.

The former DJ denies all the charges against him.



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