Tim Westwood Pleads Not Guilty to 15 Sexual Charges

Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood pleaded not guilty on Monday to 15 charges of sexual misconduct spanning more than three decades, including allegations of assaulting seven women who were in their late teens or early 20s at the time of the incidents.

Westwood, 68, entered the pleas at Southwark Crown Court in London, where he faces nine counts of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault and four counts of assault. The charges relate to alleged offenses between 1983 and 2016 in various locations across London and one in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Prosecutors outlined that three of the indecent assault counts occurred at BBC Studios in the 1990s, while others involved non-consensual kissing, groping and forcing himself on the women at sites including a London hotel, a music festival and private addresses.

The court heard details of specific incidents, such as an alleged indecent assault on a 17-year-old girl in Fulham in 1983 and another on a woman in her 20s in Vauxhall in 1986. Additional charges include rape and sexual assault of teenagers in central London in the mid-1990s, rape and sexual assault of another teenager between 2000 and 2001, rape of a woman in her 20s in a...