Tim Westwood, the longtime BBC radio DJ, has been accused of multiple counts of rape and sexual misconduct from incidents relating to seven different women. The 68-year-old, who spent nearly 20 years with the BBC, is facing 15 charges alleged to have taken place between 1983 and 2016. Westwood, the son of a Church of England bishop, is alleged to have raped four women between 1995 and 2010 and sexually assaulted several teenage girls between the ages of 17 and 18 on separate occasions, with the most recent charge concerning an alleged sexual assault on a woman in her 20s in 2016. Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy of the Metropolitan Police said, “It takes courage to come forward and report allegations of this nature. The women who have done so have put their trust in us, and we continue

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