Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty to two more sexual offence charges, bringing the total number of counts he denies to 17 involving nine women. The former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra DJ entered the pleas in court in London on Thursday and was granted conditional bail.
The two new charges were announced in September by London’s Metropolitan Police after the Crown Prosecution Service authorized them. They relate to separate alleged incidents in 1991 and 2004 involving two women who were not part of the original case. One count accuses Westwood of indecently assaulting a girl aged 16 or 17 in the Hammersmith and Fulham area of London in 1991. The other is a sexual assault charge tied to 2004.
Catherine P Baccas, deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said prosecutors reviewed the police file and found enough evidence to bring the additional charges, and that doing so was in the public interest.
Westwood, 68, was first charged in October 2025 with 15 offences involving seven women. Those charges include four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, with alleged incidents dating from 1983 to 2016. He pleaded not guilty to all 15 at Southwark Crown Court in December 2025.
The earlier charges include four alleged indecent assaults in London in the 1980s and three alleged indecent assaults at the BBC in the 1990s. Westwood is also accused of raping a woman at a London hotel in 1996 and sexually assaulting a woman at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010.
Tim Westwood’s trial on all 17 charges is set to begin at Southwark Crown Court in January 2027. He has denied all wrongdoing.
For years, Westwood was one of the biggest names in British hip hop radio. He hosted shows on BBC Radio 1 from 1994 to 2013 and later moved to Capital Xtra, interviewing many of the biggest American rappers on their UK visits. His radio career came to a halt in 2022 when the BBC and The Guardian published accounts from multiple women accusing him of sexual misconduct, and he stepped down from Capital Xtra soon after. He denied those allegations at the time.
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The Metropolitan Police investigation began after those reports surfaced. The case has now grown from the original seven women to nine, and prosecutors have warned the public against commentary that could affect the trial.
