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According to BBC News, former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra DJ Tim Westwood has denied two further sexual offences at Southwark Crown Court. His latest not-guilty pleas mean he now denies 17 charges involving allegations by nine women between 1983 and 2016.
The 69-year-old, of Fitzrovia in London’s West End, pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London, in 1991. He also denied sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth, south London, in May 2004.
Westwood was charged in October last year with offences against seven women, which he also denies. The allegations include four indecent assaults in London in the 1980s and three alleged indecent assaults while he was at the BBC in the 1990s.
He is also accused of raping a woman in a hotel in 1996. Further allegations include two indecent assaults and one rape in the early 2000s at a London address, two counts of rape at a London address in the 2010s, and alleged sexual assaults at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010 and at a London music festival in 2016.
Westwood has been granted conditional bail. A seven-week trial at Southwark Crown Court is due to begin on 27 January.
