FormerRadio 1 DJ Tim Westwood denies further sex offences

FormerRadio 1 DJ Tim Westwood denies further sex offences

By PA News Agency-
Former DJ Tim Westwood has denied two additional sex offences dating back to 1991 and 2004.His latest not guilty pleas mean he now denies a total of 17 charges against nine women between 1983 and 2016.

At Southwark Crown Court on Thursday, the 69-year-old pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London, in 1991.

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Tim Westwood denies all charges against him (James Manning/PA)

Westwood, of Fitzrovia, in London’s West End, was granted conditional bail and will face trial for all 17 charges.

The DJ was charged in October last year with offences against seven women, which he denies.

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He is accused of four indecent assaults in the 1980s in London, as well as three indecent assaults at the BBC in the 1990s.

The defendant is also alleged to have raped a woman in a hotel in 1996.

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Westwood is further accused of two indecent assaults and one count of rape from the early 2000s at a London address, and two counts of rape at a London address in the 2010s.

He is also alleged to have committed a sexual assault at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010, and at a London music festival in 2016.

Westwood has entered not guilty pleas to all counts and is due to face a seven-week trial at Southwark Crown Court on January 27.

There will be a pre-trial review for the case, which the defendant does not have to attend, on December 8.

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