Tim Westwood: Met detectives hand file to prosecutors to consider charges
Claims of non-contemporary sexual abuse had been made in opposition to the frail BBC Radio 1 DJ in 2022.
The Met Police beforehand acknowledged it became once investigating alleged offences in London that came about between 1982 and 2016, and officers own now submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Carrier (CPS).
Westwood, 66, has beforehand “strongly” denied any wrongdoing.
A CPS spokesperson acknowledged: “We are able to substantiate we received a file from the Metropolitan Police Carrier regarding allegations of non-contemporary sexual offences allegedly dedicated by a man in his 60s.”
No timescale for a resolution on charging has been given.
Detectives first received allegations of non-contemporary sexual abuse in opposition to Westwood in April 2022, after the BBC aired a documentary revealing claims in opposition to the presenter.
The broadcaster has since been finishing up its enjoy inquiry into Westwood’s habits one day of his time at the corporation. As piece of that review, a 24-hour hotline became once region up for folk to file info.
The file is but to be printed. A freedom of information count on by BBC Data earlier this year printed the broadcaster had spent more than £3m on the review to this point.
In July, the BBC acknowledged the file had been performed nonetheless there had been neutral processes to battle thru sooner than it’s some distance in a collection apart to submit the findings.
After the allegations had been made public, an announcement from a consultant of Westwood acknowledged: “Tim Westwood strongly denies all allegations of unhealthy behaviour.
“In a profession that has spanned 40 years, there own by no contrivance been any complaints made in opposition to him officially or unofficially.
“Tim Westwood strongly rejects all allegations of wrongdoing.”
Westwood started his profession on local radio sooner than becoming a member of Capital Radio in London.
He then moved to the BBC and left Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra after nearly twenty years in 2013.
Westwood hosted a usual Saturday repeat on Capital Xtra, where he became once known as “The Giant Dawg”, sooner than he left the corporate in 2022.
Sky Data has contacted representatives for Westwood for comment.
