No court appeal for David Lee Travis sentence

DISGRACED DJ Dave Lee Travis’s three-month suspended sentence for indecent assault will not be referred to the Court of Appeal, the Attorney General has said.

Dave Lee Travis. Picture: Reuters

Jeremy Wright QC found that the 69-year-old’s sentence for indecently assaulting a TV researcher on the Mrs Merton Show in 1995 was “neither wrong in principle nor unduly lenient”.

Travis, whose real name is David Griffin, was found guilty at London’s Southwark Crown Court and sentenced by Judge Anthony Leonard last month.

A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office said: “The Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC MP, has decided not to refer the suspended prison sentence given to David Griffin to the Court of Appeal as he does not believe they would find it to be unduly lenient and increase it.

“The judge marked the seriousness of the offence by imposing a three-month sentence of imprisonment, the maximum under the guidelines being six months.

“It was neither wrong in principle nor unduly lenient to suspend that sentence.”