Paedophile Radio 1 DJ who was pals with Jimmy Savile dies aged 79 after ‘falling off his yacht into river’ A PAEDOPHILE ex-Radio 1 DJ and college lecturer died after falling into a river, The Sun can reveal.
Willis had worked on Radio Caroline before a short spell on Radio 1 and was friends with infamous paedophile Jimmy Savile.
Willis, who used the stage name Steve Merike in the 1970s, was caught with 500 images on his computer on his yacht Appalachian Spring in Plymouth.
Then on January 20 a body was found half a mile down the river by Dartmouth Castle and it was later identified by the coroner as David Evans, 79.
The former lecturer and Lib Dem parliamentary candidate in Loughborough is understood to have moved to nearby Dartmouth and was living on a small cabin cruiser yacht called High Cirrus.
