BBC Radio 1 veteran Tim Westwood accused of a number of sexual assaults

BBC Radio 1 veteran selector Tim Westwood has reportedly been accused of a number of sexual assault expenses, stated to have occurred all the best way from 1992 to 2017. Revealed in a joint investigation by The Guardian and the BBC, a number of girls open up about opportunistic and predatory sexual conduct made by Westwood. Westwood has denied all accusations and his spokesperson has retracted all claims to the media as nicely. The ladies who’ve come ahead declare that Westwood used his business energy to make the most of them, many of those accusers of their 20’s on the time of the assault.

Westwood, 64, began the UK’s first common hip-hop radio present in 1994 and was seen as an inspiration to the style’s followers throughout the globe. Westwood was additionally revered all through the business; an esteem and affect he wielded to govern girls, in accordance with his accusers.

“He may make or break your profession,” says one of many alleged victims. “In the event you wished to get any type of publicity, you’ll attempt to get your demo to him and pray that he would play it. He had absolute energy.”

Westwood was beforehand acknowledged because the Greatest UK Radio DJ thrice between 2000 and 2005, and left BBC in 2013, after almost 20 years.

H/T: NME

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