Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday 12 November, as his case moves towards trial early next year. The 69-year-old faces 17 sex offence charges involving nine women, with the alleged offences spanning more than three decades, from 1983 to 2016. He denies all of the allegations against him.

Westwood was due at the London court to face the two most recent charges against him, which were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service in September. His trial on the full set of charges is due to begin at Southwark Crown Court on 25 January 2027 and is expected to last six weeks.

What Tim Westwood is accused of

The two newest charges concern alleged offences from 1991 and 2004. Westwood is accused of indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London, in 1991, and of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth, south London, in May 2004.

The Crown Prosecution Service authorised those two further charges on 22 September 2026, following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police. They took the total number of charges against Westwood to 17, involving nine women.

He was first charged in October 2025 with 15 offences against seven women: four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault. Prosecutors allege the offences amount to a pattern of offending over more than 30 years.

According to court reporting of the case, the allegations include four indecent assaults in London in the 1980s, three indecent assaults at the BBC in the 1990s, and the alleged rape of a woman at a hotel in London in 1996. Westwood is further accused of two indecent assaults and one count of rape at a London address in the early 2000s, two counts of rape at a London address in the 2010s, and sexually assaulting a woman at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010.

How the case has reached this point

Westwood appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 23 October, where court officials said he had indicated he would plead not guilty to the two newest charges. He was conditionally bailed to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 12 November.

He had already pleaded not guilty to the original 15 charges when he appeared at Southwark Crown Court in December 2025. He was granted bail with a condition not to contact the complainants.

Westwood, of Fitzrovia in London's West End, is a former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra DJ. He stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in April 2022 and has previously strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Background to the case

The BBC apologised in February 2025 after an independent review found evidence of bullying and misogynistic behaviour by Westwood during his time at the corporation. The BBC had begun an external inquiry in 2022 into what was known about his conduct while he worked there.

The charges against Westwood are allegations that have not been proven in court. His trial, at which the evidence will be tested before a jury, is scheduled to start on 25 January 2027.