VETERAN DJ Dave Lee Travis was an opportunist who acted as if he had a "perfect right" to grope young women, jurors in his retrial have been told.
Travis, who is standing trial on three charges, inappropriately touched women much younger than him over a period of more than 20 years, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.
The former Radio 1 DJ, who is charged under his real name, David Griffin, faces a retrial on two counts - one of indecent assault of a woman between November 1, 1990 and January 31, 1991, and another of sexual assault on another woman between June 1 and November 30, 2008 - on which a jury was unable to reach verdicts at a trial earlier this year.
He has also pleaded not guilty to an additional count of indecent assault alleged to have taken place on January 17, 1995.
Opening the prosecution case, Miranda Moore QC told the jury of six men and six women that the airing of a television exposé on Jimmy Savile in 2012 had prompted a number of women to come forward about Travis.
She said: "We say ... he has a propensity towards laying his hands in a sexual manner on young women who are alone with him. He is an opportunist." Giving evidence, the alleged victim of the third count described how Travis groped her chest as she stood in his kitchen after interviewing him.
The woman, who was working as a journalist, said the DJ had showed her a picture of a woman in a bikini, offering to take a similar picture of her.
She said: "He then looked me up and down and said 'You've got a good figure, I could take a picture of you'."
She said she dismissed the comment, but Travis later made the same offer, prompting her to feel she had to give a "bigger justification".
Giving evidence from behind a screen, she said: "I just blurted out, thinking it would put him off, 'Well, I don't think I have big enough boobs'. There was a split second and then he put his hands out and put them on my breasts."
The case was adjourned until 10am on Monday.
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