A FORMER BBC and ITV presenter from the North-East 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, but born in Sunderland, 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 old, the court heard.
Rowell also admitted six counts of making indecent photographs of children, which range from levels one to four - five being the most serious category.
He also pleaded guilty to the possession of 464 indecent images, found in his possession in January 2011.
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