Paedophile and former Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning has died in prison while serving two 13-year sentences.
The friend of Jimmy Savile was in prison after being convicted of sex offences against boys as young as eight. He died aged 81 in hospital from diabetes last year but it has only just been disclosed in a prison watchdog report.
He was held at HMP Bedford at the time of his death last June. Denning died from a bone infection caused by diabetes.
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A clinical reviewer for the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman found: “When clinical readings first showed that Mr Denning needed emergency care, he was not transferred to hospital for treatment.” The reviewer claimed the care he received in custody was “worse” than he could have expected to receive as a free man.
The report stayed it found “issues of concern in Mr Denning’s end of life care.”
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Denning was jailed in 2006 after admitting five charges of abusing boys under 16 and put in prison for four years. After the case, he was extradited to Slovakia and sentenced to five years for producing indecent images of children.
When the Met Police launched Operation Yewtree which saw them investigate claims of sex abuse, Jimmy Savile was exposed, as was Denning. He was convicted of 40 offences against 24 boys aged between nine and 16.
The court heard he had taken victims to the Top of the Pops recording and introduced them to Savile. Judge Alistair McCreath labelled Denning “utterly depraved” and sentenced him to 13 years.
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In 2016, he admitted to abusing another 11 boys, as young as eight, and was sentenced to another 13 years. Denning was one of the founding DJs on BBC Radio 1 and was the first person to ever speak on BBC2.
He interviewed The Beatles during this time and helped launch the career of Gary Glitter while working on Bell Records. However in the 1970s, he was exposed as a sex offender and later convicted of gross indecency in 1974.
In 1998, he was jailed for three years for indecent assault and possessing indecent images. In 1996, he was prosecuted for publishing indecent articles.
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