DJ Beats Wife over Internet Affair
By Kate Mansey & Liam Murphy, Liverpool Echo
Radio City DJ Shaun Tilley
THE WIFE of shamed DJ Shaun Tilley vowed to stand by her husband after he admitted punching her.
The Radio City star hit wife Claire after accusing her of an affair with a man she met in an internet chatroom, Chester magistrates heard yesterday.
Tilley, who hosts the Big Drive Home show, pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife at their home in Islay Close, Ellesmere Port.
The couple – married for 14 years – have three children, aged 11, nine and four, and are still together.
The 34-year-old DJ has been taken off the air by the radio station while an internal inquiry is carried out.
Last night Mrs Tilley told the ECHO she was unable to attend court due to work commitments, otherwise she would have been there to support him through it.
She said: “Shaun was painted in a very bad light – he’s not like that. It was an incident that got out of hand, but I wasn’t beaten to a pulp.”
Tilley was arrested at his home in January after his wife called police.
