Disgraced DJ Dave Lee Travis has left court after being given a three-month suspended sentence for indecently assaulting a TV personality.
Speaking to reporters outside, the former Radio 1 star said he was "mortified" and "really disappointed" over his conviction this week and criticised his prosecution.
He said the judge accepted that prosecutors had failed to prove their case that he was a "sexual predator".
Travis said: "I was worried if the prosecution threw enough mud at me, some of it might stick", adding it was "of little comfort that I was acquitted of so many others (alleged offences)".
He said of those people closest to him: "We all know the truth and I'm grateful for that."
Travis, who became a household name in the 1970s, was found guilty on Tuesday of indecently assaulting a woman in 1995.
He was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for two years.
Travis pictured with his wife Marianne The incident took place behind the scenes at The Mrs Merton Show, a programme which the victim had been working on as a researcher.
The DJ had squeezed her breasts for 10-15 seconds after cornering her in a corridor of a BBC studio.
The victim had been smoking in the corridor when he commented on her "poor little lungs" before groping her.
Sentencing the 69-year-old man at London's Southwark Crown Court, Judge Leonard said: "It was an intentional and unpleasant sexual assault.
"You took advantage of a young woman in a vulnerable position whose job it was to look after you that day."
In the dock, Travis briefly looked down and then said: "Thank you, your honour".
Marianne, his wife of more than 40 years, hugged a friend in the public gallery after the judge delivered his sentence.
In a statement read out ahead of his sentencing, the victim said: "I was subjected to an unprovoked and terrifying physical assault at my place of work.
The DJ became a household name in the 1970s "I was too paralysed with fear to confront my assailant."
Before sentencing, another woman, journalist Camilla Long, said Travis had "bashed" on the dock glass and "screamed" at her to move from the public gallery to the press seats as she was making him "uncomfortable".
Ms Long, who in 2012 wrote an article in which she claimed he groped her during an interview, told Sky News the incident in court on Friday was "incredibly intimidating".
This week, Travis was found not guilty on a second indecent assault charge and the jury was discharged after it was unable to agree a verdict on a count of sexual assault.
He faced a retrial after jurors failed to reach verdicts on those two charges earlier this year.
He was cleared of 12 counts of indecent assault at his original trial in February.
The broadcaster, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was first arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, Scotland Yard's investigation into historic sexual abuse in the wake of allegations against the late DJ Jimmy Savile.
Judge Leonard said Travis' offence was of a "different order of magnitude" to other more serious convictions under Operation Yewtree.
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