Former Radio 1 DJ Mark Page jailed over Philippines child sexual offences

The judge at Teesside crown court said Mark Page did not care that he was inflicting long-term trauma and emotional damage on the children. Photograph: Islandstock/Alamy

A former BBC Radio 1 DJ has been jailed for 12 years for arranging to sexually abuse vulnerable children in the Philippines.

Mark Page, who worked at the station in the 1980s, was guilty of “grotesque sexual abuse” of children as young as 12 and took advantage of their poverty, the judge said.