Savile’s DJ friend found guilty of raping young girls

A DJ friend of Jimmy Savile has been convicted of a catalogue of historical sex offences against young girls.

Ex-Radio Caroline DJ Ray Teret, 73, used his celebrity status in the Manchester club scene in the 1960s and 1970s to prey on many of his victims.

Teret — known as Ugly Ray — was mentored by Savile in the early days of his career and was described as following him around “like a shadow”, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

Teret, of Woodlands Road, Altrincham, told the jury he had no interest in underage girls, despite a previous conviction for sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in 1999, which he denies.

He denied 18 rapes, two other serious sexual assaults, one attempted rape, 12 indecent assaults and one count of indecency with a child.

The jury heard millionaire Savile was a miser who lived in a derelict Victorian building described in court as “a haunted house on the corner”.

He was happy to live alone in a dilapidated house with no kitchen, no kettle and painted black walls to cover up falling plaster. Teret told the jury: “It was a house of three floors, totally detached. It was like a haunted house on the corner.”