Famed UK DJ Tim Westwood Charged With Multiple Rape Counts

Tim Westwood — longtime DJ for BBC Radio and Capital Xtra — is dealing with a number of accusations of rape and sexual misconduct, courting all the best way again to the Nineteen Eighties.

Thursday, the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service gave the Metropolitan Police Service the inexperienced mild to cost Westwood with 4 counts of rape, 9 counts of indecent assault, and a pair of counts of sexual assault … stemming from incidents associated to 7 completely different girls.

Tim Westwood is accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old woman within the Fulham space of London in 1983; sexually assaulting a lady in her 20s within the Vauxhall space of London in 1986; sexually assaulting the identical feminine between the age of 17-18 in central London someday between 1995 and 1996; raping and sexually assaulting a feminine age 17-18 in London someday between 2000 and 2001; raping and sexually assaulting two girls of their 20s in 2010 in London and Stroud, respectively; and sexually assaulting a lady in her 20s within the Finchley space of London.

Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy counseled the alleged victims  …  “It takes braveness to return ahead and report allegations of this nature. The girls who’ve completed so have put their belief in us and we proceed to offer them with all accessible assist.” He mentioned the investigation is ongoing, and police encourage anybody else with info to contact authorities.