DJ Tim Westwood denies two more sexual offences

Former BBC Radio 1 and Capital Xtra DJ Tim Westwood has denied two more sexual offences during a court hearing.

His latest pleas of not guilty mean he now denies a total of 17 charges concerning allegations by nine women between 1983 and 2016.

The 69-year-old pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting a teenage girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London, in 1991 at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.

At the same hearing, Westwood also denied sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth, south London, in May 2004.

Westwood, of Fitzrovia, in London's West End, was charged in October last year with offences against seven women, which he also denies.

He is accused of four indecent assaults in the 1980s in London, as well as three indecent assaults while at the BBC in the 1990s.

The defendant is also alleged to have raped a woman in a hotel in 1996.

Westwood is further accused of two indecent assaults and one count of rape from the early 2000s at a London address, and two counts of rape at a London address in the 2010s.

He is also alleged to have committed a sexual assault at a nightclub in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 2010 and at a London music festival in 2016.

Westwood has been granted conditional bail and is due to face a seven-week trial at Southwark Crown Court starting on 27 January.