Tim Westwood has been charged with 4 counts of rape, 9 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault.
The fees relate to seven completely different ladies throughout a interval from 1983 to 2016, the Metropolitan Police mentioned.
The 68-year-old former BBC Radio 1 DJ will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on Monday, 11 November.
Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy, from the Metropolitan Police Service, mentioned: “It takes courage to come forward and report allegations of this nature. The women who have done so have put their trust in us and we continue to provide them with all available support.
“Our investigation stays open and we might encourage anybody who has been impacted by this case, or anybody with info, to come back ahead and communicate with us.”
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, spending almost 20 years with the company. He left the BBC in 2013.
Westwood 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.
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