Neil Fox trial: Bosses ‘ignored my sex claims against star DJ’
A WOMAN allegedly sexually abused by DJ Neil Fox said yesterday she was fobbed off when she turned to bosses.
Neil Fox arrives at court with wife Vicky yesterday as his trial for sex assault continues
She was repeatedly told the alleged sex attacks were her problem and urged to stand up for herself, she said.
The woman, who was in her 20s at the time, was allegedly indecently assaulted by Fox four times during 2003 at London’s Capital Radio.
But she told the court: “It was seen as my issue to deal with.
“Anytime I told them about it, they would tell me to take control of the situation and assert my authority.”
She told Westminster magistrates court that Fox, 54, regularly stroked or groped her bottom and humiliated her in front of male colleagues.
The DJ’s “banter” included “speculating if I was good in bed, what kind of position I liked and stuff like that”.
The court heard Neil Fox allegedly dreamed of sex in the office
She said he once walked up behind her and squeezed her breasts so hard, she was left in pain.
“It was humiliating because I didn’t do anything,” the woman told the court.
Fox is also accused of bending her over a desk and simulating sexual intercourse.
Neil Fox is standing trial for an alleged sex assault
In a third alleged assault, he is said to have groped her between the legs and it is claimed he later made her squeeze her breasts together.
Fox also once told her he dreamed they had sex in the office, she said.
Anytime I told them about it, they would tell me to take control of the situation and assert my authority
“Then he went on to say, ‘We could do it’,” she said. The woman acted after reading of DJ Dave Lee Travis’s sex trial last year.
“I don’t know what came over me,” she said. “I got off the Tube and the second I got a signal, I phoned the police.”
Jonathan Caplan, QC, defending, asked if she recalled the horseplay at Capital at the time.
The woman was allegedly indecently assaulted by Fox four times during 2003
She replied: “I don’t think it could ever be genuinely acceptable to be grabbed from behind.”
Married father-of-three Fox, of Fulham, west London, denies eight counts of indecent assault and two of sexual assault between 1988 and 2014.
His trial continues.