Tim Westwood claims sex crimes under investigation by police after 40 years, Sky News understands | UK News
Scotland Yard is investigating sex crime allegations against former BBC disc jockey, Tim Westwood, 40 years ago, Sky News understands.
Detectives first received allegations of sexual assault in April after the BBC aired a documentary revealing allegations against Westwood, 64, from seven women.
He strongly denies any wrongdoing.
Soon after, police began assessing more reports, including alleged attacks in London, Essex and Hertfordshire.
BBC then reported accusations from 10 other womenone person alleges that she started having sex with Westwood after meeting him at a club when she was 14 years old.
Scotland Yard has yet to be named WestwoodBut when asked about the allegations aired on the BBC, they said in a statement: “The Met’s Central Special Crimes Agency detectives continue to investigate four reports related to the allegations. about a non-recent sex crime allegedly committed by a man.
“The offenses are believed to have occurred in London in 1982, 1985, 2010 and 2016. No arrests have been made, investigations continue.”
The avant-garde hip-hop DJ worked for BBC Radio One from 1994 to 2013 and has a huge following as a club performer.
He get out of his radio show on Capital Xtra in April as the BBC’s allegations surfaced, with women alleging predatory and unwanted sexual conduct as well as abuse of his position in the music industry.
This week, the BBC is expected to publish the findings of an internal investigation into Westwood’s career, spurred on by their documentary based on the investigation of its own news reporters. them and the Guardian newspaper.
The day after the story broke in April, BBC Director-General Tim Davie said he had “no evidence of a complaint”, but the company later confirmed that it had received six complaints about bullying and sexual misconduct, one of which was turned over to the police at time.
