Tim Westwood denies two sexual offence charges against teenagers

Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to two further sexual offence charges at Southwark Crown Court, bringing to 17 the number of charges he denies. The allegations concern nine women and are said to relate to offences between 1983 and 2016.

Westwood, 69, appeared in court on Thursday, 12 November. He denied indecently assaulting a 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.

He was granted conditional bail and is due to face trial on all 17 charges in January. The allegations have not been proved; Westwood has pleaded not guilty to every charge.

The two new charges were added to a case in which Westwood had previously been charged over alleged offences involving seven women. He was charged in October 2025, and the latest charges bring the number of women connected with the case to nine.

The earlier accusations include four alleged indecent assaults in London in the 1980s and three alleged indecent assaults at the BBC in the 1990s. He is also accused of raping a woman at a hotel in 1996.

Other allegations relate to two alleged indecent assaults and one alleged rape at a London address in the early 2000s, as well as two alleged rapes at a London address in the 2010s. The case also includes accusations of sexual assault at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010, and at a London music festival in 2016.

Westwood formerly worked as a DJ for BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra. He left 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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