Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been granted conditional bail throughout a courtroom look to face costs of rape and sexual assault.
The 68-year-old is accused of offences in opposition to seven girls, together with three indecent assaults on the BBC studios within the Nineteen Nineties.
He’s additionally alleged to have raped a girl at a resort in London in 1996 and sexually assaulted one other girl at a music pageant within the metropolis about 20 years later.
Westwood, sporting a darkish gray shirt, spoke solely to substantiate his title, date of start and handle as he appeared within the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on Monday.
The previous BBC DJ, who returned to the UK from Nigeria final week, was not required to enter pleas to any of the costs at this stage.
He has attended 5 police interviews voluntarily because the investigation into the alleged offences started, the courtroom heard.
He’s charged with 4 counts of rape, 9 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.
Westwood has beforehand denied all allegations of sexual misconduct made in opposition to him.
Chief Justice of the Peace Paul Goldspring granted bail on the situation that he doesn’t contact prosecution witnesses, and set his subsequent courtroom look at Southwark Crown Courtroom for 8 December.
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 over virtually 20 years with the company.
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.
