Overview
- Prosecutors have charged the 68-year-old with 15 offences involving seven women between 1983 and 2016, including four counts of rape, nine of indecent assault and two of sexual assault.
- Court documents cite three alleged indecent assaults at BBC studios in the 1990s, an alleged rape at a London hotel in 1996, and alleged sexual assaults in Stroud in 2010 and Finchley in 2016.
- Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring granted conditional bail, prohibiting contact with prosecution witnesses.
- The court heard Westwood has attended five voluntary police interviews and recently returned to the UK from Nigeria.
- Westwood has previously denied wrongdoing, and Metropolitan Police investigators praised complainants’ courage and urged anyone with information to come forward.