DJ Tim Westwood pleads not guilty to sexual offences. The former BBC Radio 1 presenter appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday charged with four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault. During the court hearing, the 68-year-old spoke only to confirm his name and plead not guilty to all 15 charges. According to BBC News, he was granted bail until his trial, which is scheduled to begin in January 2027. The charges relate to claims by seven women and alleged incidents spanning from 1983 to 2016. On Monday, the court heard that three of the alleged indecent assault offences took place in the BBC Studios in 1996. Westwood, who worked for BBC Radio 1 between 1994 and 2013, was charged with the alleged offences in October following a lengthy investigation by London's Metropolitan Police. He is accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl in Fulham, west London, in 1983, and indecently assaulting a woman in her 20s in Vauxhall, south London, in 1986. He is also charged with indecently assaulting and raping a teenager aged between 17 and 18 in central London in the mid-1990s and raping and indecently assaulting another teenager of the same age between 2000 and 2001. According to the Met, Westwood is further accused of raping a woman in her 20s in London in 2010 allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Stroud, Gloucestershire, that same year, and sexually assaulting another woman in her 20s in Finchley, north London, in 2016. After leaving BBC Radio 1, Westwood hosted a show on Capital Xtra until 2022.