Tim Westwood has been charged with 4 counts of rape.
Tim Westwood has been charged with rape
The previous BBC Radio 1 DJ has additionally been charged with 9 counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, with all the expenses referring to allegations from seven girls in a interval spanning from 1983 to 2016.
Lionel Idan, Chief Crown Prosecutor, stated: “Our prosecutors have established that there’s enough proof to carry the case to trial and that it’s within the public curiosity to pursue felony proceedings.
“The Crown Prosecution Service reminds everybody that felony proceedings are lively, and the defendant has the appropriate to a good trial.
“This can be very essential that there be no reporting, commentary or sharing of knowledge on-line which may in any method prejudice these proceedings.”
Police have praised the ladies who got here ahead with their allegations and urged anybody with additional data to return ahead.
Det Supt Andy Furphy, of the Metropolitan police, stated: “It takes braveness to return ahead and report allegations of this nature. The ladies who’ve completed so have put their belief in us and we proceed to supply them with all accessible help.
“Our investigation stays open and we’d encourage anybody who has been impacted by this case, or anybody with data, to return ahead and communicate with us. Any stories shall be handled within the strictest confidence by specialist officers.”
The 68-year-old broadcaster will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom on 11 November.
The alleged offenses embrace the indecent assault of a 17-year-old woman in 1983 and the sexual assault of a lady in her 20s in 1986.
As well as, between 1995 and 1996, a feminine aged 17-18 was allegedly raped and sexually assaulted on one other event, with the identical alleged to have occurred to a different teenager of the identical age between 2000 and 2001.
There may be additionally an allegation a lady in her 20s was raped in 2010 and one other lady of the same age was sexually assaulted. The ultimate cost pertains to the sexual assault of a lady in her 20s in 2016.
Aside from the 2010 sexual assault, which is claimed to have occurred in Stroud, the opposite alleged incidents are reported to have occurred in London.
