Former radio DJ Tim Westwood pleaded not guilty at Southwark Crown Court to two additional historical sexual offences dating back to 1991 and 2004, bringing the total number of denied charges to 17 against nine women spanning incidents between 1983 and 2016.
The 69-year-old, of Fitzrovia in London’s West End, faced specific allegations of indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, and of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth in May 2004, both of which he denies.
Westwood is further accused of a series of historical offences including four indecent assaults in London during the 1980s, three indecent assaults at the BBC in the 1990s, and a rape in a hotel in 1996. Additional charges involve two indecent assaults and one count of rape from the early 2000s, and two counts of rape at a London address in the 2010s. He is also alleged to have committed sexual assaults at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010, and at a London music festival in 2016.
Having entered not guilty pleas to all counts, Westwood is scheduled to face trial for all 17 charges at Southwark Crown Court in January. He was granted conditional bail. The former DJ exited Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra in 2013 after nearly two decades, and stepped down from his Capital Xtra show in April 2022.
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