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Three Top Celebrities Appear in Court to Deny Sexual Assaults on Children Afternoon Tea Now Served... Immigration Attorney Steven Landaal • Green Cards Through Marriage and Family • Employment Visas • Monthly Payments Available Tel: (310) 395-2828 11.30am-4.30pm in our Tea Room See our ad on Page 3 Ye Olde King’s Head, 116 Santa Monica Blvd. California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, January 18, 2014 • Number 1505 Always Free TV STARS IN SEX TRIALS SENSATION BILL ROACHE DAVE LEE TRAVIS ROLF HARRIS Three showbusiness stars appeared QC told the jury: Favour or condemn in court this week accused of sex him on the evidence, not because he attacks on women and young girls. plays Ken Barlow.” Three top In separate cases, Coronation At London’s Southwark Crown Street’s Bill Roache, entertainer Rolf Court, former Radio One DJ Travis, Harris and ex Top of the Pops host 68, was accused of sex assaults on 10 celebrities appear and DJ Dave Lee Travis denied all young women and a 15-year old girl the charges against them. between 1976 and 2008. One fan, 19, Roache, 81 – Ken Barlow in the was allegedly molested during a Top enduring ITV soap - faced five of the Pops recording. in court to deny counts of indecent assault and two of Harris, 83, who arrived at the same rape involving give girls aged court with his wheelchair-bound between 11 or 12 and 16. The wife Alwen, denies 12 counts of sexual assaults offences are said to have taken place indecent assault on four girls aged 7 between 1965 and 1971. to 19, between 1968 and 1986. He is Opening the prosecution’s case at due to stand trial on April 30. on children Preston Crown Court, Anny Whyte FULL STORY: Page 2-3 Inside: News from Britain 2-7, Meet a Member 8, Local News 9, Stargazing 9, Sean Borg Goes LA 10, Brits in LA 11, Legal Notices 12-27, Sport 17-20 The British Weekly, Sat. January 18, 2014 Page 2 News From Britain ‘Petrified’ girl feared Dave Lee Travis would rape her, court told n DJ put his hand up teenager’s skirt and tried to take off her clothes in VIP trailer at Showaddywaddy concert, jury hears A petrified 15-year-old officers, halting only to with the band and girl feared she was going apologise for sounding proceeded to make a to be raped when former nervous. nuisance of himself”. BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave The girl fled from the Travis, who listened to the Lee Travis lunged at her trailer, the court heard, evidence through HEIGHT OF HIS POWERS? Dave Lee Travis pounced on the teenage pop fan backstage at a before hitch-hiking home earphones, winked and after inviting her into his backstage trailer at the gig on a farm in Showaddywaddy and deciding not to tell smiled at Bartram as the Gloucestershire, jurors heard. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters concert, a court has anyone about what had witness left the heard. happened because her courtroom. jurors that Travis was The jury was told that The former local radio The starstruck teenager parents had told her not to showing her around his the first time she met journalist, who was 21 at was attacked by Travis get tickets for the concert. ‘rigid with fear’ vehicle when he suddenly Travis he had taken hold the time of the alleged after he invited her into Describing why she did Travis denies assaulting turned and pressed her of a security pass pinned assault, told jurors she his VIP trailer at the pop not tell anyone about her 11 women, including the against the wall. “I turned to her top and said: was “gutted” by the concert in Gloucestershire ordeal until November 15-year-old girl, in a series and he was on to me and “Securi-titties”. incident because she saw in June 1978, the jury was 2012, the woman said she of incidents between his demeanour changed,” A third woman who Travis as a “friendly told. thought the attack was January 1976 and she said. “I’d been gave evidence in the trial granddad” who had been In a video interview “what I got for lying” to November 2008. absolutely rigid with fear told how she was left in “very tactile” with her with detectives, which her parents about going to Earlier, a woman told and I realised it was that tears when Travis since her first day at the was played on screens in the gig. the jury she was left moment thinking: ‘Oh my “deliberately” groped her station in court, the woman said she She described Travis as “absolutely rigid with goodness, something was breasts in the middle of a Buckinghamshire. felt awkward and scared a “disgusting old man” fear” when, in 1983, going to happen.’” busy office in early 2000. The trial continues. and was crying and and a “pervert” as she Travis pinned her against up 0.8% in the A Treasury spokesman screaming as Travis gave evidence from the wall of his campervan GDP Growth July-to-September said: “Today’s data pinned her down before behind a white curtain in and tried to stick his period compared with show that the recovery shoving his hand up her the witness box of tongue in her mouth. higher than the previous quarter, has been stronger than skirt and pulling off her Southwark crown court in The former Top of the confirming its previous previously thought and top. London. Pops host invited the then expected estimate. that the government’s Listening to 19-year-old student into The UK economy is But it revised its growth long-term economic ‘disgusting old man’ proceedings from the his “very very posh” growing faster than figures for earlier plan is working. “I was petrified. I dock, Travis later burst campervan after he had previously estimated, quarters. “But risks remain and thought he was going to out laughing as the played a DJ set at according to the latest This means the the job is not done, so rape me. I was crying, I Showaddywaddy Nottingham’s Trent official figures. estimated annual the government will go was shouting at him to frontman, David Bartram, Polytechnic, the court The Office for growth rate has now on taking the difficult stop then he all of a told the jury he recalled heard. National Statistics risen from 1.5% to 1.9%, decisions needed to sudden did stop,” the the concert because the The woman, who is (ONS) said gross a revision that has deliver a responsible woman told police former DJ “came on stage now a head teacher, told domestic product was surprised economists. recovery for all.” 171 Pier Avenue, Ste. 121• Santa Monica, CA 90405 Tel (310 ) 452-2621• FAX: (310) 314-7653 E-mail:[email protected] www.british-weekly.com • twitter.com/BritishWeekly MANAGING EDITOR: Neil Fletcher Hare and the Hounds DEPUTY EDITOR : Nick Stark CONTRIBUTING WRITERS : Alan Darby Drake, John Hiscock, Eileen Lee, Dave Kershaw, Anthony Matthews, Carolan Nathan, Anne Shaw, Bernard Sidman, Nick We have all your favorites from the British Isles.... 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There was no Mr Roache was given “cold and calculated” as warning... I didn’t know permission to leave the he raped her. what to do. dock and sit next to his The woman, now 62, “I can just remember lawyer while the said the alleged rapes thinking ‘God, I just want recording was played in took place in his two to get out of here. I didn’t court so he could view it. homes in Haslingden, know what to make of it, I The woman said: “I Lancashire, Preston was just so scared’.” thought it must be my Crown Court heard. William Roache was fault. I didn’t know why it Mr Roache, 81, from allowed to leave the dock had happened.
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