Tim Westwood denies two new sexual offence charges at court

Court hearing details and pleas

The sixty-nine-year-old defendant appeared before the judge to plead not guilty to charges involving a teenage girl in Hammersmith and Fulham during 1991. He also rejected allegations of sexually assaulting an eighteen-year-old woman in Wandsworth south London back in May 2004. These latest pleas bring his total number of denied charges to seventeen concerning accusations from nine women spanning the years 1983 to 2016.

Full scope of allegations

Westwood faces accusations including four indecent assaults in London during the 1980s and three similar incidents while working at the BBC in the 1990s. The charges list one count of rape from a hotel stay in 1996 alongside two further rapes occurring at a London address in the 2010s. Additional counts include assaults at a nightclub in Stroud Gloucestershire in 2010 and an incident at a music festival held in London in 2016.

Bail conditions and trial date

The court granted the defendant conditional bail while he awaits his scheduled seven-week trial starting on twenty seventh January. Westwood was originally charged in October last year with offences against seven women which he continues to deny completely. He previously left Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra in 2013 after nearly twenty years before stepping down from Capital Xtra in April 2022.