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Ex-BBC DJ charged with rape and sexual assault
Western Morning News
|October 10, 2025
FORMER Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with rape and sexual assault.
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The Metropolitan Police said the 68-year-old is accused of offences against seven different women.
He is charged with four counts of rape, nine of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, the force said.
‘The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1983 and 2016.
This story is from the October 10, 2025 edition of Western Morning News.
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