Tim Westwood was granted bail after a court docket listening to in London over rape fees and assaults spanning many years.

Tim Westwood walked out of Westminster Magistrates’ Courtroom a free man on Monday after securing bail on severe felony fees that would derail the veteran DJ’s legacy perpetually.

The 68-year-old Hip-Hop pioneer confronted his first court docket listening to since prosecutors hit him with a devastating 15-count indictment final month. The costs paint a disturbing image spanning over three many years of alleged misconduct.

Authorities accuse the previous BBC Radio 1 host of 4 rape counts, 9 indecent assault fees, and two sexual assault allegations. The timeline stretches from 1983 to 2016, with victims reportedly as younger as 17 years outdated when the alleged incidents occurred.

Magistrates launched him on conditional bail with one strict requirement: zero contact with prosecution witnesses.

Notably damaging are three indecent assault fees allegedly taking place inside BBC studios throughout the Nineteen Nineties – proper when Westwood was constructing his popularity as Britain’s Hip-Hop ambassador.

Seven girls have come ahead with allegations towards the longtime radio persona. The costs element a sample of alleged abuse throughout London places, together with Fulham, Vauxhall, central London, Stroud, and Finchley.

Westwood’s authorized troubles characterize a dramatic fall for somebody who championed Hip-Hop tradition within the UK because the early Nineteen Nineties. He joined Radio 1 in 1994, internet hosting his influential rap present till departing in 2013. Capital Xtra then turned his broadcasting residence till 2022.

The case now strikes to Southwark Crown Courtroom for a listening to on December 8, the place Westwood is predicted to enter formal pleas to all fees. He has persistently denied any wrongdoing because the allegations first surfaced.

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