Victim of EX-BBC presenters speaks out

A victim of two former BBC radio presenters who assaulted under-age boys during sex sessions has said the acts were not “every schoolboy’s dream”.

Darrencunninghamsaid husband-and-wife team Tony and Julie Wadsworth had been “touring” their local area looking for victims.

Hewas14whenheandhis friends were approached by Mrs Wadsworth, who asked if he wanted to have sex with her.

The pair were found guilty by majority verdicts of encouraging six boys to take part in sexual activity in Warwickshire between 1992 and 1996. Sentencing Mrs Wadsworth, 60, and her 69-year-old husband at Warwick Crown Court on Friday, Judge Andrew Lockhart QC said the “grave” offences had caused emotional damage to all the victims.

Mr Cunningham, 39, said: “People must think it’s every schoolboy’s dream but it wasn’t right. They are nasty people and thoroughly deserve jail. At 14 we thought it was all a bit of a joke having a woman twice our age taking our trousers down. But in today’s language they were grooming us for sex.”

Mr and Mrs Wadsworth were convicted of nine indecent assaults and five counts of outraging decency by majority verdicts.