Dave Lee Travis ‘preyed on vulnerable young women’

Mr Travis, from Buckinghamshire, is charged with 13 counts of indecent assault dating between 1976 and 2003, and one count of sexual assault in 2008.

Ms Moore showed the jury a short clip of Top Of The Pops from 1978, in which it is alleged Travis was starting to assault a woman.

The 19-year-old had travelled to the show with a friend and alleges he put his hand up her skirt to “touch her bum”. Ms Moore said the teenager “pulled away from him very quickly”.

Her friend “remembers her being angry and upset and saying this defendant had put his hand up her skirt”.

‘Embarrassed’

Ms Moore added: “She was embarrassed and thought no-one would believe her. The incident was actually cut from what was broadcast. She says that is the start of him trying to put the hand up her skirt.”

Another incident allegedly happened in 1978 at a Showaddywaddy concert on a farm in Gloucestershire.

Mr Travis is alleged to have invited a 15-year-old to have a drink with him in his trailer. Once inside, he is alleged to have lifted her top over her head and pulled down her bra to expose her breasts.

Ms Moore said: “In her words, she thought he was going to rape her.”

Mr Travis is also alleged to have assaulted a woman working in the pantomime Aladdin in which he was appearing in Crawley, west Sussex, between November 1990 and January 1991.

The alleged victim reported the incident to a stage manager, but it was decided she would not go to the police because Mr Travis was a “star”, the prosecutor said.

The theatre later decided that female workers should not be left alone with Mr Travis during the show’s run, she added.

Mr Travis denied assaulting the woman, describing the allegation as “utter nonsense” and telling police he would not have “jeopardised” his first pantomime role, the court heard.