On Thursday (10.08,) The Metropolitan Police in England confirmed that former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood faces four counts of rape, along with two counts of sexual assault and nine counts of indecent assault.
According to the British authorities, the charges against the radio personality stem from seven different women, with the alleged offenses said to have taken place between 1983 and 2016. The announcement follows a lengthy Metropolitan Police investigation into the English DJ, who was once one of BBC Radio 1’s most prominent figures.
In a formal statement from Scotland Yard, the 68-year old Westwood is accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl in Fulham, west London, in 1983, and sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Vauxhall, south London, in 1986. He is also accused of sexually assaulting and raping a teenager aged between 17 and 18 in central London in the mid-1990s, raping and sexually assaulting another teenager of the same age between 2000 and 2001, raping a woman in her 20s in London in 2010, allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Stroud, Gloucestershire, that same year, and sexually assaulting another woman in her 20s in Finchley, north London, in 2016.
Tim Westwood who joined the BBC in 1994 and left the broadcaster in 2013, has previously denied all allegations, and is scheduled to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on November 11.
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