Former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with two additional sexual offences, including an alleged indecent assault of a teenage girl in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991 and a sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth in 2004. These charges bring the total number of charges against Westwood to 17, involving nine separate women. The charges include four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault, and two counts of sexual assault, according to the Metropolitan Police.
The new charges include alleged indecent assaults in the 1980s in London, three indecent assaults at the BBC in the 1990s, and a rape in a hotel in 1996. Westwood is further accused of two indecent assaults and one count of rape from the early 2000s at a London address, and two counts of rape at a London address in the 2010s. He is also alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010.
Catherine P Baccas, deputy chief crown prosecutor in CPS London, said the Crown Prosecution Service has authorised two further charges of sexual assault and indecent assault against Tim Westwood. Mr Westwood is already charged with nine counts of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault, and four counts of rape in relation to reported non-recent offences between 1983 and 2016 involving seven women. These new charges, following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police, relate to separate reports of non-recent offences in 1991 and 2004 involving two additional women.
The Metropolitan Police’s detective superintendent Andy Furphy added that the women who have made reports have placed their trust in the police, and they remain committed to providing them with all available support. Independent support is also available through Rape Crisis via its 24/7 Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Line.
Westwood previously pleaded not guilty to 15 existing charges, including four counts of rape, and faces trial in January. He is due to face trial for those offences at Southwark Crown Court in January. Westwood has previously denied multiple sex offences, including rape and sexual assault, and pleaded not guilty to earlier charges last December.
Former BBC DJ Tim Westwood Charged with Additional Sexual Offences
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