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Ray Teret sentenced to 25 years
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 11 December 2014
Former radio presenter and Jimmy Savile associate Ray Teret has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, after being found guilty of seven charges of rape and eleven of sexual assault last week at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court (pictured).
As previously reported, Teret met Savile in the early 1960s at a singing competition organised by the latter, and they subsequently shared a Manchester flat together. Teret was accused of exploiting the minor celebrity status his radio work rewarded him, and his association with Savile, to assault young girls as young as twelve.
He was found not guilty of one of the charges against him, aiding and abetting Savile to rape a fifteen year old girl in the early 1960s, but he was found guilty of raping the complainant himself, along with the other seventeen charges.
Chris Denning, another former radio DJ convicted of sexual assault, was also due to be sentenced this week, though that hearing has been postponed because of the prosecutor’s ill-health.
