Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 69, denies two further sexual offences dating to 1991 and 2004

Westwood had already been charged in October last year with 15 offences relating to seven complainants, all of which he disputes.

The two new counts were authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service following a Metropolitan Police investigation into separate reports of non-recent offending.

The first of the new charges accuses Westwood of indecently assaulting a girl aged 16 or 17 in the Hammersmith and Fulham area of west London in 1991.

He also denied a count of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in Wandsworth, south London, during May 2004.

Catherine P Baccas, deputy chief Crown prosecutor in CPS London, said when the charges were authorised: “Our prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring these additional charges to court and that it is in the public interest to pursue further criminal proceedings.”

Both allegations involve women who are separate from the seven complainants in the original case.

The existing charges encompass four counts of indecent assault during the 1980s in London, alongside three further indecent assaults alleged to have taken place while Westwood was working at the BBC during the 1990s.

He is additionally accused of raping a woman at a hotel in 1996.

The charges from the early 2000s comprise two indecent assaults and a single rape count, said to have occurred at a London address. Two further rape allegations relate to incidents at a London property during the 2010s.

Westwood also faces accusations of sexual assault at a Stroud nightclub in Gloucestershire in 2010 and at a London music festival in 2016.

Westwood, who resides in Fitzrovia in London’s West End, was granted conditional bail following Thursday’s hearing.

He will stand trial on all 17 counts at Southwark Crown Court, with proceedings scheduled to begin on January 27 and expected to last seven weeks.

A pre-trial review has been set for December 8, at which Westwood is not required to be present.

The CPS has reminded the public that criminal proceedings in the case are active and that the defendant is entitled to a fair trial. Westwood maintains his innocence across every charge.