A pedophile ex-radio 1 DJ, known as friends with Jimmy Savile, died at the age of 79 after he fell into a river.
Michael Willis, who changed his name to David Evans after a prison sentence of 18 months, was missing in December after he last saw a water taxi to a pontoon where his yacht in Dartmouth was moored.
A source said: 'The next morning his boat was unlocked and his phone was inside.
'His torch was still lit on the pontoon next to the boat.
“Something has happened and he must have entered the water.”
Despite extensive searches to the river Dart, where he was missing, by Coastguards and the RNLI, the body of Willis could not be established.
Chattered ex-radio 1 DJ Michael Willis, who changed his name to David Evans, died at the age of 79
Willis was known to be friends with the serial pedophile and sex predator Jimmy Savile
About a month later, however, a body was found on January 20 about half a miles downstream – it was later identified by a coroner like the body of the ex -radio 1 DJ.
Devon Area He was missing with the police because he had not been seen for a few days.
'A body was further along the river a few weeks later. There are no suspicious circumstances. The medical cause of death has not been imposed. '
The sun approached the ex-wife of the convicted pedophile, Julia, for comments, but she refused. However, her new husband replied: “Good.”
The 79-year-old was placed behind the bars in 2020 for possession of more than 500 indecent images of children. The images were discovered during a police raid from Willis's private yacht.
He was imprisoned for 18 months – his second conviction for possession of indecent images of minors.
He denied the possession of 238 category A indecent images, of the worst nature, on his computer.
Judge James Townsend has imprisoned Willis for 18 months in Plymouth Crown Court (photo) in 2020 – his second conviction for possession of indecent images of children
Willis, a former lecturer and school governor, argued guilty of having only 10 photos in the least serious class, category C, on a memory stick. The police fell over his yacht in August 2017.
He took the witness to explain that he found some of the more serious images 'absolutely disgusting'.
But the jury heard that he was also caught by category A images when he was arrested in Loughborough in 2013.
Willis admitted that he used software for sharing files to find indecent images.
Judge James Townsend has imprisoned him for 18 months at Plymouth Crown Court (photo) – his second conviction for possession of indecent images of children
But he claimed that he had no idea how the more serious photos appeared on his laptop, desktop and the memory stick.
A jury quickly rejected his story and found him guilty by unanimous judgments after a two -day process.
Willis advocated guilty in Leicester in 2015 to nine counts of downloading indecent images and films of children between 2006 and 2013.
He had claimed to the police that while some images were downloaded, others appeared because his computer had been hacked.
Willis was in possession of the images and stood as a liberal -democrat parliamentary candidate for Loughborough in the 2010 General Elections.
He lost to the future secretary of Tory Education Nicky Morgan.
Willis, as Merike, was a presenter in the television show called Pop Quest and stars interviewed such as Marc Bolan from T-Rex.
He also worked at Radio Trent in the 1980s, where a colleague was late television presenter Dale Winton.
The BBC employees website stated that Mike Willis started his career at Radio Caroline and then went to a short spell on BBC Radio 1. He worked for BBC Radio Trent in the 1980s.
He ran stations in Australia and gave a lecture on the radio and in the media.
Willis also taught for 15 years to New College Nottingham and Nottingham Trent and is the governor at a number of schools in the Midlands.
He also faced different councils in Leicestershire without success.
