Tim Westwood granted bail after court appearance on rape and sexual assault charges

Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been granted conditional bail during a tribunal quality to look charges of rape and intersexual assault.

The 68-year-old is accused of offences against 7 women, including 3 indecent assaults astatine the BBC studios successful the 1990s.

He is besides alleged to person raped a pistillate astatine a edifice successful London successful 1996 and sexually assaulted different pistillate astatine a euphony festival successful the metropolis astir 20 years later.

Westwood, wearing a acheronian grey shirt, spoke lone to corroborate his name, day of commencement and code arsenic helium appeared successful the dock astatine Westminster Magistrates' Court connected Monday.

The erstwhile BBC DJ, who returned to the UK from Nigeria past week, was not required to participate pleas to immoderate of the charges astatine this stage.

He has attended 5 constabulary interviews voluntarily since the probe into the alleged offences began, the tribunal heard.

He is charged with 4 counts of rape, 9 counts of indecent battle and 2 counts of intersexual assault.

Westwood has antecedently denied each allegations of intersexual misconduct made against him.

Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring granted bail connected the information that helium does not interaction prosecution witnesses, and acceptable his adjacent tribunal quality astatine Southwark Crown Court for 8 December.

Westwood began his broadcasting vocation successful section vigor earlier joining Capital Radio successful the precocious 1980s.

He moved to the BBC successful 1994, moving connected Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra implicit astir 20 years with the corporation.

After leaving the BBC successful 2013, helium past joined Capital Xtra, hosting a regular Saturday amusement wherever helium was referred to arsenic "The Big Dawg", earlier helium near the institution successful 2022.