article_snippet.sent: Dave Lee Travis Dave Lee Travis has claimed that Dave Lee Travis indecent assault trials 'financially ruined' Dave Lee Travis, but Dave Lee Travis will still receive £4,000 from the taxpayer to pay for Dave Lee Travis taxis to court .
article_snippet.sent: Dave Lee Travis has claimed that his indecent assault trials 'financially ruined' him, but Dave Lee Travis will still receive £4,000 from the taxpayer to pay for his taxis to court.
article_snippet.sent: At a costs application hearing today, the former radio presenter was told the former radio presenter would be awarded travel and hotel fees for the former radio presenter time on trial.
article_snippet.sent: Today Dave Lee Travis was told Dave Lee Travis will be awarded more than £4,000 for taxi fares to and from court, as well as a further £630 for hotel stays while Dave Lee Travis was on trial.
article_snippet.sent: Stephen Vullo QC, representing the disgraced DJ, made a defendant’s costs application at Southwark Crown Court, saying the criminal proceedings against his client had left his 'financially ruined'. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Vullo said that since the second trial Mr Vullo had been acting pro bono on Travis's behalf.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Vullo applied to Southwark Crown Court for travel and accommodation costs, saying that Travis had racked up a bill of £4,456 in taxi fares to travel daily from Mr Vullo home in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to court during the trials.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Vullo also claimed £630 in hotel accommodation, and £246 for travel to legal conferences, asking for a total of £5,332 towards Travis's costs.
article_snippet.sent: At a costs application hearing today, the former radio presenter (pictured outside court), 69, was awarded travel and hotel fees for when Mr Vullo was on trial .
article_snippet.sent: Today Travis (pictured in a taxi outside court) was awarded more than £4,000 for taxi fares to and from court, as well as a further £630 for hotel stays while Travis was on trial .
article_snippet.sent: Before Travis's retrial began, Mr Vullo revealed that the DJ was forced to sell Mr Vullo
article_snippet.sent: At Travis's sentencing, a taxi outside court heard that Mr Vullo had spent in the region of £350,000 defending both trials and had not worked since Mr Vullo arrest.
highlights_snippet.sent: Lawyers for Dave Lee Travis say Dave Lee Travis was 'financially devastated' by trials .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Former presenter, 69, will be given more than £4,000 to pay for taxi fares .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Dave Lee Travis was also awarded £630 to pay for hotel costs while Dave Lee Travis was on trial .
  