Tim Westwood pleads not guilty to further sexual offence charges

Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to further charges of sexual offences against two more women.

During a brief hearing at Southwark Crown Court, the 69-year-old denied charges of indecently assaulting a teenage girl, aged 16 or 17, in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991.

He also denied sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth in May 2004.

Westwood, of Fitzrovia, in London's West End, is now facing a total of 17 charges involving nine women between 1983 and 2016.

He has previously pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.

He is due to face trial at Southwark Crown Court in January.

Westwood rose to fame on Capital Radio in the late 1980s before moving to the BBC in 1994, where he stayed for almost 20 years, working on Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra.

After leaving the BBC in 2013, he joined Capital Xtra, hosting a regular Saturday show, before he left the company in 2022.

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