Former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra broadcaster Tim Westwood has entered not guilty pleas to two further sexual offence allegations at a court hearing, bringing his total denials to 17 charges involving nine women across a span from 1983 to 2016, according to BBC News.
The 69-year-old appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, where he denied indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London, during 1991. In the same proceeding, he also rejected allegations that he sexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth, south London, in May 2004.
Westwood, who resides in Fitzrovia in London's West End, was initially charged in October of the previous year with offences against seven women, all of which he continues to deny. The charges against him span multiple decades and locations across London.
What are the specific allegations?
The defendant faces accusations of four indecent assaults committed during the 1980s in London. Additionally, he is alleged to have committed three indecent assaults while employed at the BBC during the 1990s, and is accused of raping a woman in a hotel in 1996.
Further allegations include two indecent assaults and one rape charge from the early 2000s at a London address, along with two rape charges at another London address during the 2010s. Westwood is also alleged to have committed a sexual assault at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010 and at a London music festival in 2016.
What is the timeline for the trial?
Westwood has been released on conditional bail pending trial proceedings. He is scheduled to face a seven-week trial at Southwark Crown Court beginning on 27 January, where the court will hear evidence related to all charges he has denied.
