(The Sun UK) Mark Page, 63, a radio host at the station in the 1980s, will now spend 18 years behind bars.

The disgraced DJ was originally given a 12-year sentence by Judge Paul Watson at Teesside Crown Court in March.

He had been convicted of four counts of arranging the commission of a child sex offence between 2016 and 2019.

Page a divorced father-of-three from Stockton, Teesside, had denied all charges.

But today three appeal court judges concluded his sentence was unduly lenient at a Court of Appeal hearing in London, after an application by Solicitor General Alex Chalk.

Lord Justice William Davis, Mr Justice Martin Spencer and Judge Kristina Montgomery concluded that Page’s “overall criminality” was not reflected by the 12-year sentence.

Barrister Benjamin Holt, who represented Mr Chalk at the appeal hearing, had raised concerned about the “totality” of the 12-year term.

He suggested that the sentence should be between 12 and 24 years.

A barrister representing Page had argued that the sentence was too long.