The Metropolitan Police said the 68-year-old is accused of offences against seven different women as young as 17 years old.<\/p>\n
He is charged with four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, the force said.<\/p>\n
The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1983 and 2016.<\/p>\n
Westwood is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court.<\/p>\n
Police said the former Radio 1 DJ is alleged to have indecently assaulted a 17-year-old girl in the Fulham area of London in 1983.<\/p>\n
He is also accused of indecently assaulting a woman in her 20s in the Vauxhall area of London in 1986, as well as raping and indecently assaulting a woman, aged between 17 and 18, in London between 1995 and 1996.<\/p>\n
Westwood, of Westminster, is alleged to have raped and indecently assaulted a woman aged 17 to 18 between 2000 and 2001, and raped a woman in her 20s in 2010 \u2013 with the alleged offences also reported to have taken place in London.<\/p>\n
He is further accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010 and sexually assaulting another woman in her 20s in the Finchley area of London in 2016.<\/p>\n
Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy said: \u201cIt takes courage to come forward and report allegations of this nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe women who have done so have put their trust in us and we continue to provide them with all available support.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur investigation remains open and we\u2019d encourage anyone who has been impacted by this case, or anyone with information, to come forward and speak with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The BBC Board previously apologised following a review which said the corporation \u201cdid not take adequate action\u201d after learning of concerns regarding the hip hop DJ\u2019s alleged behaviour.<\/p>\n
In response to historical sexual abuse allegations, Westwood has previously said he \u201cstrongly denies all allegations of inappropriate behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n
He stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in April 2022 and left Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra in 2013 after nearly 20 years at the BBC.<\/p>\n
He also presented the MTV UK car makeover show Pimp My Ride UK, which ran for three seasons from 2005 to 2007.<\/p>\n
Westwood is the son of the former Anglican bishop of Peterborough, Bill Westwood, who died in the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Metropolitan Police said the 68-year-old is accused of offences against seven different women as young as 17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-131792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}