BBC pensioner was ‘work trip groper’

A former BBC employee repeatedly groped a colleague and asked her for sex during a work trip, a court heard. Geoffrey Wheeler, 71, indecently assaulted the woman at Open University studios in Milton Keynes, Bucks and in his car as a ‘matter of routine’ in the early 80s, it was said. He allegedly pushed his groin into her bottom, rubbed her shoulders and tried to touch her breasts on ‘at least ten occasions’. Wheeler also walked into the woman’s hotel…