Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has pleaded not responsible to 4 counts of rape, 9 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.
The 68-year-old arrived at Southwark Crown Courtroom on Monday, sporting a black hooded jacket, a maroon shirt and darkish trousers.
Westwood stood along with his fingers clasped in entrance of him as he confirmed his identify, earlier than sitting down within the glass dock.
He’s alleged to have raped girls, kissed them and touched their our bodies with out consent.
The offences are mentioned to have taken place towards seven completely different girls between 1983 and 2016.
Three of the alleged indecent assaults are mentioned to have taken place on the BBC studios within the Nineteen Nineties.
Westwood was granted bail, with the situation to not contact the complainants forward of a pre-trial evaluate listening to, scheduled for subsequent December.
Final month, Westwood returned to the UK from Nigeria to seem in court docket.
He has attended 5 police interviews voluntarily because the investigation into the alleged offences started.
Westwood has beforehand denied all allegations of sexual misconduct made towards him.
The costs
Fees towards Westwood embody an allegation of rape towards a girl at a resort in London in 1996, one rely of rape from the early 2000s at an tackle in London, and two counts of rape at an tackle in London within the 2010s.
He’s additional accused of 4 indecent assaults in London within the Eighties, three indecent assaults on the BBC within the Nineteen Nineties, and two indecent assaults within the early 2000s.
The previous DJ can also be alleged to have sexually assaulted a girl at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010, and faces a second sexual assault cost towards a girl at a music pageant in London within the 2010s.
Westwood started his broadcasting profession in native radio earlier than becoming a member of Capital Radio within the late Eighties.
He moved to the BBC in 1994, engaged on Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra for nearly 20 years.
After leaving the BBC in 2013, he then joined Capital Xtra, internet hosting a daily Saturday present the place he was known as “The Big Dawg”, earlier than he left the corporate in 2022.
The trial is about to happen on 25 January 2027.
