Tim Westwood charged with four counts of rape

Tim Westwood has been charged with 4 counts of rape, 9 counts of indecent battle and 2 counts of intersexual assault.

The charges subordinate to 7 antithetic women during a play from 1983 to 2016, the Metropolitan Police said.

The 68-year-old erstwhile BBC Radio 1 DJ volition look astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected Monday, 11 November.

Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy, from the Metropolitan Police Service, said: "It takes courageousness to travel guardant and study allegations of this nature. The women who person done truthful person enactment their spot successful america and we proceed to supply them with each disposable support.

"Our probe remains unfastened and we'd promote anyone who has been impacted by this case, oregon anyone with information, to travel guardant and talk with us."

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