DJ Timothy Westwood is an a spot of bother
DJ Timothy Westwood is an a spot of bother
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Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area

Original Poster:

7,295 posts

207 months

Yesterday (19:09)
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Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood charged with four counts of rape https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckge5zrl69xo

I’m a fan of the BBC but it does have a habit of being a breeding ground for wrong ‘uns. Also, he’s 68 years old!

Shnozz

29,571 posts

289 months

Yesterday (19:10)
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Pimp my Ride suddenly has a whole new meaning.

Quhet

2,713 posts

164 months

Yesterday (19:14)
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Always the weird ones isn't it!?rolleyes

BunkMoreland

2,637 posts

25 months

Yesterday (19:27)
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Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:
Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood charged with four counts of rape https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckge5zrl69xo

I m a fan of the BBC but it does have a habit of being a breeding ground for wrong uns. Also, he s 68 years old!
You do realise these are historical cases!

Its when he was at R1 in the 90s, at the height of his fame and influence and had tons of impressionable young people hanging around.


I sadly doubt anything will get to conviction as any evidence is long gone. But hope I'm proved wrong. Not an easy case unless there's something like CCTV or texts as evidence

OutInTheShed

12,323 posts

44 months

Yesterday (19:44)
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I have doubts whether anyone can get a fair trial, defending themselves about allegations of a crime with limited evidence, 30 years after the alleged event.

Easy to make allegations, hard to prove a negative.

Who keeps all the personal data that might prove you were somewhere else, for 30 years?

Terminator X

18,364 posts

222 months

Yesterday (19:45)
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He was charged ages ago too. Same thing or different offences?

TX.

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area

Original Poster:

7,295 posts

207 months

Yesterday (19:48)
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BunkMoreland said:
You do realise these are historical cases!
Yes, my surprise was simply at his age not that I thought he’d carried out the alleged assaults recently smile

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area

Original Poster:

7,295 posts

207 months

Yesterday (19:52)
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Terminator X said:
He was charged ages ago too. Same thing or different offences?

TX.
According to the article the attacks in the latest case go back a lot further, so some of them may be the same ones but a number weren’t amongst the previous charges.

ChocolateFrog

32,842 posts

191 months

Yesterday (19:54)
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OutInTheShed said:
I have doubts whether anyone can get a fair trial, defending themselves about allegations of a crime with limited evidence, 30 years after the alleged event.

Easy to make allegations, hard to prove a negative.

Who keeps all the personal data that might prove you were somewhere else, for 30 years?
I'd tend to agree.

I feel like there should be overwhelming evidence before they bring these cases.

119

14,394 posts

54 months

Yesterday (20:08)
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No doubt plenty of others got prosecuted on flimsy evidence.

Digga

44,130 posts

301 months

Yesterday (20:26)
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ChocolateFrog said:
OutInTheShed said:
I have doubts whether anyone can get a fair trial, defending themselves about allegations of a crime with limited evidence, 30 years after the alleged event.

Easy to make allegations, hard to prove a negative.

Who keeps all the personal data that might prove you were somewhere else, for 30 years?
I'd tend to agree.

I feel like there should be overwhelming evidence before they bring these cases.
On the one hand, he’s a proper oddjob, and of the BBC.

On the other hand, yes, it feels like a pile on cases like this. If true though, he deserves prosecution.

O/T was he not, in at least some part, an inspiration for Ali G?

Gecko1978

11,876 posts

175 months

Yesterday (20:33)
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Digga said:
ChocolateFrog said:
OutInTheShed said:
I have doubts whether anyone can get a fair trial, defending themselves about allegations of a crime with limited evidence, 30 years after the alleged event.

Easy to make allegations, hard to prove a negative.

Who keeps all the personal data that might prove you were somewhere else, for 30 years?
I'd tend to agree.

I feel like there should be overwhelming evidence before they bring these cases.
On the one hand, he s a proper oddjob, and of the BBC.

On the other hand, yes, it feels like a pile on cases like this. If true though, he deserves prosecution.

O/T was he not, in at least some part, an inspiration for Ali G?
The son of a Bishop who sounded like stormzy before stormzy was born. He was very influential in the R&B and hip hop scene in the UK and arguably as a white male probably more acceptable to the BBC back then.

But like many in the media fame allowed him a cess and influence over young women. So maybe he did those things maybe he did not I doubt we will ever know but I also suspect he will never be convicted as others have said.


OutInTheShed

12,323 posts

44 months

Yesterday (20:44)
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Digga said:
On the one hand, he s a proper oddjob, and of the BBC.

On the other hand, yes, it feels like a pile on cases like this. If true though, he deserves prosecution.

O/T was he not, in at least some part, an inspiration for Ali G?
You don't get to be a media star by emphasising how normal you are.

I haven't a clue who Mr Westwood is or was. I gave up on Radio 1 in about 1983.

808 Estate

2,461 posts

109 months

Yesterday (21:30)
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Met him a couple of times professionally. He was a right wker and so far up his own arse it wasnt true. Doesnt surprise me at all.



Gecko1978

11,876 posts

175 months

Yesterday (21:43)
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808 Estate said:
Met him a couple of times professionally. He was a right wker and so far up his own arse it wasnt true. Doesnt surprise me at all.
Off camera did he still speak like that?

S100HP

13,405 posts

185 months

Yesterday (21:46)
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The most shocking thing about all this is that he's 68. Can't quite believe it.

fflump

2,547 posts

56 months

Yesterday (23:53)
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808 Estate said:
Met him a couple of times professionally. He was a right wker and so far up his own arse it wasnt true. Doesnt surprise me at all.
Not sure what being a wker and up himself has got to do with being a sex offender.

fflump

2,547 posts

56 months

Yesterday (23:54)
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OutInTheShed said:
I have doubts whether anyone can get a fair trial, defending themselves about allegations of a crime with limited evidence, 30 years after the alleged event.

Easy to make allegations, hard to prove a negative.

Who keeps all the personal data that might prove you were somewhere else, for 30 years?
Since when is the criminal justice system about proving a negative?

fflump

2,547 posts

56 months

Yesterday (23:57)
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ChocolateFrog said:
OutInTheShed said:
I have doubts whether anyone can get a fair trial, defending themselves about allegations of a crime with limited evidence, 30 years after the alleged event.

Easy to make allegations, hard to prove a negative.

Who keeps all the personal data that might prove you were somewhere else, for 30 years?
I'd tend to agree.

I feel like there should be overwhelming evidence before they bring these cases.
The CPS obviously feel there is a case to answer and evidence to support the prosecution. Whether it is overwhelming is for the jury to decide.

soad

34,095 posts

194 months

Digga said:
O/T was he not, in at least some part, an inspiration for Ali G?
An influence on the development of his character.