Former DJ Dave Lee Travis. Photo: PA

Britain’s former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis was found guilty of indecent assault yesterday.

The ex-Top of the Pops presenter was cleared on a second charge of the same offence following a trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court.

Jurors were unable to agree a verdict on another charge of sexual assault and were discharged.

Travis, 69, who became a household name in the 1970s, had faced a retrial after a jury failed to reach verdicts on two of the charges earlier this year.

He stared straight ahead with a stony expression and held his hands in front of him as the verdicts were read out.

He glanced over his shoulder to his wife Marianne, who sat at the back of court, before sitting down.

The jury of six men and six women came to their verdicts after 19 hours and 15 minutes.

Prosecutor Teresa Hay told the court that the Crown would not be seeking a retrial on the count of sexual assault that the jury was hung on, and a formal verdict of not guilty was entered.

I’m not speaking to anybody right this moment

The forewoman told the court the jury had found Travis guilty of a single count of indecent assault by a majority of 10 to two.

Judge Anthony Leonard QC warned the former radio star that he was looking at “all options” when he considered his sentence.

Sophie Wood, defending, told the judge they would be asking for Travis to be given a non-custodial community order sentence.

She said: “It is the defence position that we will seek to persuade your honour that this is a community order penalty. That is where we submit it fits.”

Judge Leonard said: “All options remain open”, including jail.

Travis declined to comment on the verdict after leaving the courtroom, saying: “I’m not speaking to anybody right this moment.”

Travis, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was convicted of groping a female television personality working on the Mrs Merton Show on January 17, 1995.

Prosecutors claimed Travis approached the woman – then working as part of the production crew – as she stood smoking in the corridor and put his hands on her chest for at least 10-15 seconds until she ran away.

She spoke to police about the allegation following Travis’s first indecent assault trial earlier this year. He was cleared of 12 counts of indecent assault at his original trial in February.

He faced 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 a different woman between June 1 2008 and November 30 2008, on which a jury was unable to reach verdicts at the earlier trial. He also denied the additional count of indecent assault, but he was convicted over this charge yesterday.

Travis was first arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, Scotland Yard’s investigation into historic sexual abuse in the wake of allegations against the late DJ Jimmy Savile.

During the trial, prosecutors claimed Travis was an “opportunist” who acted as if he had the “perfect right” to grope young women.

Giving his own evidence, the veteran DJ denied the claims against him, telling jurors the women had been lying. He called on a host of other defence witnesses, which heard him described as the “perfect gentleman” rather than a sexual predator.