Jury is shown footage of girl pulling 'grimace' as DJ allegedly put hand up her skirt while introducing performance by the Smurfs
Dave Lee Travis forced his hand up a teenage girl's skirt as he introduced a performance by the Smurfs on Top of the Pops, a court has heard.
The then 17-year-old girl said she felt "violated and vulnerable" and thought the veteran broadcaster was trying to get his hand into her knickers at a filming of the show at BBC studios in London in the late 1970s.
The girl and her friend were asked if they wanted to be on television by a Top of the Pops crew member, who took them to stand next to Travis as he introduced the next act.
In footage shown to the jury, the girl can be seen looking uncomfortable – pulling a face she described as a "grimace"– as the DJ allegedly put one hand up her skirt as he held the microphone with his other.
"He put his arm around myself and held me towards him. He had the mic in one hand … But then he slipped his hand down and put it up my skirt," said the woman, speaking from behind a curtain in the witness box.
"The skirt will have been lifted from behind. [He was] having a fumble of my bottom area. I think he was trying to get into my underwear. He was introducing the next act as if nothing was happening – that's why I couldn't comprehend what was going on."
Asked by the prosecutor Miranda Moore QC how she felt at this moment, she said: "I felt really, really uncomfortable. I felt in a state of shock. I think my face describes how I felt at the time. Very, very uncomfortable."
The teenager decided not to watch the Top of the Pops recording when it was televised the following Thursday, the jury heard. "I felt violated and vulnerable because the main thing is the camera crew and everyone was there, all these people, and that's what made it more uncomfortable," she said.
The girl said she was under the impression the BBC would have not broadcast the segment where she appears next to Travis because her face was in a "grimace" at what was happening, the court heard.
"That's not a face of being happy through that video," she said after watching the footage replayed on television screens dotted around the courtroom.
The woman is one of 11 who say they were sexually assaulted by Travis in a series of incidents between the mid-70s and November 2008. Travis denies the charges.
The trial continues.
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Dave Lee Travis forced his hand up a teenage girl's skirt as he introduced a performance by the Smurfs on Top of the Pops, a court has heard.
The then 17-year-old girl said she felt "violated and vulnerable" and thought the veteran broadcaster was trying to get his hand into her knickers at a filming of the show at BBC studios in London in the late 1970s.
The girl and her friend were asked if they wanted to be on television by a Top of the Pops crew member, who took them to stand next to Travis as he introduced the next act.
In footage shown to the jury, the girl can be seen looking uncomfortable – pulling a face she described as a "grimace"– as the DJ allegedly put one hand up her skirt as he held the microphone with his other.
"He put his arm around myself and held me towards him. He had the mic in one hand … But then he slipped his hand down and put it up my skirt," said the woman, speaking from behind a curtain in the witness box.
"The skirt will have been lifted from behind. [He was] having a fumble of my bottom area. I think he was trying to get into my underwear. He was introducing the next act as if nothing was happening – that's why I couldn't comprehend what was going on."
Asked by the prosecutor Miranda Moore QC how she felt at this moment, she said: "I felt really, really uncomfortable. I felt in a state of shock. I think my face describes how I felt at the time. Very, very uncomfortable."
The teenager decided not to watch the Top of the Pops recording when it was televised the following Thursday, the jury heard. "I felt violated and vulnerable because the main thing is the camera crew and everyone was there, all these people, and that's what made it more uncomfortable," she said.
The girl said she was under the impression the BBC would have not broadcast the segment where she appears next to Travis because her face was in a "grimace" at what was happening, the court heard.
"That's not a face of being happy through that video," she said after watching the footage replayed on television screens dotted around the courtroom.
The woman is one of 11 who say they were sexually assaulted by Travis in a series of incidents between the mid-70s and November 2008. Travis denies the charges.
The trial continues.
Josh Hallidaytheguardian.com © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Reported by guardian.co.uk 11 hours ago.
