A DJ has been convicted of a historic catalogue of sexual offences against women from the 1960s and 1970s.

Ray Teret, aged 73, was Jimmy Savile’s former flatmate and chauffeur and used to DJ in Bolton in the 1960s.

After 60 hours of deliberation, the jury at Minshull Street Crown Court, Manchester, found the ex-Radio Caroline and Radio Piccadilly presenter guilty of seven rapes and 11 indecent assaults over three decades, and not guilty of one serious sexual assault in relation to 11 victims.

He was cleared of sexual offences in relation to six other complainants.

Teret was also cleared of aiding and abetting Savile to rape a 15-year-old girl in the early 1960s but was found guilty himself of raping the same complainant.

The court heard Teret, who lives in Woodlands Road, Altrincham, used nightclubs and youth discos across Manchester as a hunting ground to meet young and impressionable underage girls.

He would then take them back to his flat and rape them.

Teret, who used the stage name Ugly Ray Teret and had a gold bracelet emblazoned with the word UGLI, would walk around the dancefloor selecting young girls and showering them with attention.

Starstruck and in awe of his celebrity status, these young girls would then go back to various properties Teret either owned or lodged in, where he would rape them.

His crimes finally came to light following the publicity surrounding the Jimmy Savile scandal in 2011.

Moved by what she had seen on the news, the first of Teret's victims contacted police in October 2012 and Teret was arrested the following month.

The ensuing publicity caused a domino effect and a number of Teret's other victims then came forward.

There were two other men on trial with Teret.

Alan Ledger, aged 62, also from Woodlands Road, Altrincham, was found not guilty of a serious sex assault, not guilty of two indecent assaults and not guilty of one count of indecency with a child.

William Harper, 65, of Ash Grove, Stretford, known in his disc jockey days as Tony Grey, was cleared of one count of attempted rape.

Speaking after the case, Det Chief Inspector Graham Brock said: "This was not a generational thing. This was not how it was in the '60s and '70s.

"Rape has always been rape and Teret took advantage of his fame and his power to manipulate the affections of impressionable young girls for his own sexual gratification."