A Former Radio 1 DJ, Chris Denning, has been jailed for four years after he pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to five charges of indecent assault on boys under sixteen. All charges relate to incidents which took place in the seventies and eighties. Denning, 64, who has served time for similar offences in the Czech Republic, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 18 August last year as he returned to the UK from Austria. Police had previously failed in their attempts to extradite Denning from the Czech Republic back in 2001.
He was investigated as part of the same inquiry that saw Jonathan King convicted of child abuse. Detective Inspector Jo Sidaway said: "This has been a long and complex investigation. The crimes Christopher Denning committed some decades ago have had a lasting effect on his victims and I hope this development will go some way to helping them cope with the appalling way in which they were treated."
Denning worked for the BBC during the 1960s, and was one of the Radio 1 launch team.