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BBC presenter admits sex assaults on teenaged girls
Saturday January 14, 2012 08:01:35 PM,
IANS
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London: A BBC radio
presenter has admitted a string of sex attacks against five
teenaged girls, a media report said.
Peter Rowell, 53, admitted indecent assault, making indecent
images and possessing them, the Daily Mail reported.
The sexual assaults -- all on girls under the age of 16 -- took
place between 1989 and the early 1990s.
Rowell, who presented BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset
shows until his arrest in 2011, denied charges of rape on one girl
at a hearing at the Bristol Crown Court.
He admitted possessing a total of 464 indecent photographs and
making a movie.
The judge adjourned the case till March 3, and Rowell has been
remanded in custody till his next court appearance.
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