TV presenter is jailed for 12 child sex offences

A FORMER BBC and ITV television presenter has been jailed for six years after admitting a string of sexual assaults on teenage girls.

Peter Rowell, 53, used his position as a DJ on a local radio station to groom and abuse impressionable young girls.

The father of one, from Wickwar, South Gloucestershire, pleaded guilty at Bristol Crown Court to 12 counts of indecent assault following complaints from five women.

The assaults occurred between 1989 and the early 1990s when the women were all under 16 years, the court heard.

Rowell admitted six counts of making indecent photographs of children.

He also pleaded guilty to the possession of 464 indecent images, found in January 2011.