‘IT WAS MENACINGLY SILENT... I WAS SO ASHAMED OF MYSELF’

ISABEL was 19 when she says she handed Westwood her mixtape in a club, knowing he was ‘the main gatekeeper’ for a dream spot on Radio 1.

Westwood, then 53, called her the next day and invited her to come to London from her home in the Midlands.

He picked her up from the railway station, but she started to panic when he drove out of central London.

The mood turned ‘menacingly silent’ before he tapped her arm. She turned and claims he had undone his trousers and exposed his genitals, she told the BBC. ‘I’ve looked and I’ve seen and I’m like “oh, no, oh no,” like, “oh my God”,’ she said.

Isabel* claims Westwood took her to his flat, where she felt ‘completely powerless’ and ‘very, very scared’.

Westwood allegedly left the room before re-entering ‘completely naked’. He started undoing a condom from a packet with his face on it from a promotional Durex campaign. Isabel was left ‘frozen with fear’ and ‘knew what was going to happen at this point’ as the DJ forced himself on her, she claims. ‘I just remember feeling so deflated,’ she added. ‘So sad. Feeling really ashamed of myself and bad.’