Tim Westwood , the radio presenter who worked at the BBC for nearly 20 years, has been charged with rape and sexual assault by the Metropolitan Police.

The 68-year-old will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on November 10 to face the charges, which relate to 15 alleged offences between 1983 and 2016.

Westwood faces four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault, and two counts of sexual assault. The charges relate to seven different women in the London area.

The earliest charge relates to the alleged indecent assault of a 17-year-old girl in 1983. The most recent charge concerns an alleged sexual assault on a woman in her 20s in 2016.

Westwood allegedly raped three women between 1995 and 2010, which was during the years that he worked as a BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ. He l

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