Tim Westwood denies 17 sex offence charges spanning 33 years at Southwark Crown Court
Former BBC DJ Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to two further sex offences, bringing the total charges against him to 17 across nine alleged victims.
Westwood enters fresh not guilty pleas as total charges reach 17
Former BBC DJ Tim Westwood appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday to deny two additional sex offences, one allegedly committed in 1991 and another in 2004, the Evening Standard reports.
The latest not guilty pleas bring the total number of charges against the 69-year-old to 17, covering alleged offences against nine women across a period spanning 1983 to 2016.
Westwood, who lives in Fitzrovia in London's West End, pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London, in 1991. He also denied sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth, south London, in May 2004.
The court granted him conditional bail. He will face trial on all 17 counts.
The charges against Westwood span more than three decades and cover a range of alleged offences across London and beyond. He faces four counts of indecent assault in the 1980s in London, as well as three counts of indecent assault allegedly committed at the BBC during the 1990s. He is also accused of raping a woman at a hotel in 1996.
Further charges relate to two indecent assaults and one count of rape in the early 2000s at a London address, and two additional counts of rape at a London address in the 2010s. Westwood is also alleged to have carried out a sexual assault at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010, and at a London music festival in 2016.
The DJ was first charged in October last year with offences against seven women, all of which he denies. The two most recent charges, denied on Thursday, were issued in September.
A pre-trial review is scheduled for 8 December, which Westwood is not required to attend. The seven-week trial is set to begin at Southwark Crown Court on 27 January.
Westwood rose to prominence through the Capital Rap Show on 95.8 FM in London during the late 1980s. He later became a prominent figure in British hip-hop through his work at BBC Radio 1 and then 1Xtra. He stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in 2022 following the emergence of allegations against him.
Source: Evening Standard