text: Disgraced DJ Dave Lee Travis (pictured arriving at court in 2013) has claimed that his indecent assault trials 'financially ruined' him, but he will still receive £4,000 from the taxpayer to pay for his taxis to court . Disgraced DJ Dave Lee Travis has claimed that his indecent assault trials 'financially ruined' him, but he will still receive £4,000 from the taxpayer to pay for his taxis to court. The 69-year-old was convicted of indecently assaulting a woman behind the scenes at the Mrs Merton Show and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, suspended for two years. At a costs application hearing today, the former radio presenter was told he would be awarded travel and hotel fees for his time on trial. Travis's conviction came after lengthy legal proceedings which saw him cleared of 12 counts of indecent assault following a trial in February last year. After the jury was unable to decide on verdicts on an additional count of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that the DJ, real name David Griffin, would face a retrial. It also added one more count of indecent assault - the offence of which he was eventually convicted of in September. Travis was cleared of the indecent assault on which he was retried, and after a second jury were unable to reach a verdict on the sexual assault charge, Judge Anthony Leonard QC directed a not-guilty verdict. Today Travis was told he will be awarded more than £4,000 for taxi fares to and from court, as well as a further £630 for hotel stays while he was on trial. The costs will come out of the public purse. 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 him 'financially ruined'. 'In effect, it means that all of the allegations from trial one were found in his favour,' Mr Vullo said. 'In reality, as difficult as it might be for the prosecution, they called a number of complainants in the first trial who we say were proven to be liars, and some of the evidence called in the first trial was extremely weak on paper.' Mr Vullo said that since the second trial he had been acting pro bono on Travis's behalf. He added: 'He has no money left whatsoever. He is now below zero. He lives in a house owned by his wife ... he has been financially devastated by this.' Mr Vullo applied to the court for travel and accommodation costs, saying that Travis had racked up a bill of £4,456 in taxi fares to travel daily from his home in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to court during the trials. He also claimed £630 in hotel accommodation, and £246 for travel to legal conferences, asking for a total of £5,332 towards Travis's costs. At a costs application hearing today, the former radio presenter (pictured outside court), 69, was awarded travel and hotel fees for when he was on trial . Prosecutor Joshua Munro opposed the application, stating that the costs were not 'reasonable' expenses for the taxpayer to fund. Travel costs: £4,121.80. The total equivalent of a return day train fare from Aylesbury to Marylebone (£61.40), plus £50 each day for taxis, on each of the 37 days he was in court. In reality Travis took taxis instead of the train. Hotel accommodation: £630. COSTS HE WILL NOT BE AWARDED . Extra travel costs: £334.20. The judge did not award Travis the full travel costs applied for. Travel to legal conferences: £246. Magistrates' court costs: £21,161.54. Judge Leonard ruled that Travis was only entitled to the costs of a daily return train ticket from Aylesbury to Marylebone - worth £61.40 - as well as £50 a day for reasonable taxi costs from the station. The judge allowed the hotel costs. Judge Leonard said: 'The trip from Aylesbury by train costs £61.40, day return, not allowing for the reduction with a monthly or weekly season ticket.' Referring to Travis's back problems, he added: 'His infirmity was such that the benefit from the train to get up from his seat rather than remain in it is something that could only have been achieved on a train, not a car.' The judge added he did not have the power to award defence costs of £21,161.54 for magistrates' court hearings. The defence estimate that Travis travelled to court on 37 days, meaning he is entitled to a total £4,121.80 in fares. 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 he was on trial . Before Travis's retrial began, Mr Vullo revealed that the DJ was forced to sell his £1.1million home in Buckinghamshire to pay for legal costs. At Travis's sentencing, the court heard that he had spent in the region of £350,000 defending both trials and had not worked since his arrest. In September last year, Travis was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, suspended for two years. His trial heard that the former Top Of The Pops presenter got a 'weird sexual thrill' when he indecently assaulted the woman, who is now a successful TV personality, in 1995. He cornered her in the corridor of a BBC television studio where she was smoking, and commented on her 'poor little lungs' before squeezing her breasts for 10 to 15 seconds. Travis was first arrested in October 2012 under Operation Yewtree, Scotland Yard's investigation into historic sexual abuse in the wake of allegations against the late DJ Jimmy Savile.
target: Lawyers for Dave Lee Travis say he was 'financially devastated' by trials .
  Former presenter, 69, will be given more than £4,000 to pay for taxi fares .
  Travis was also awarded £630 to pay for hotel costs while he was on trial .
  He was convicted of indecently assaulting a woman behind the scenes of the Mrs Merton Show and was handed a suspended sentence last year .