BREAKING NEWS: DJ Neil Fox charged with sex offences

The 53-year-old radio presenter – known as ‘Dr Fox’ – was arrested in September last year by police investigating claims of historical sex offences.

Today, the Metropolitan Police announced it had charged him with a total of nine sex offences involving six people, of whom three were children.

Fox has been charged with three counts of indecent assault, one on a female under the age of 14 and two on females under 16.

The offences are alleged to have taken place between 1991 and 1996.

The force has also charged him with four counts of indecent assault of a female over 16, and two further counts of sexual assaults, alleged to have happened to three victims between 2003 and 2014.

The DJ started his career in local radio and Radio Luxembourg before joining Capital Radio in 1987 where he presented the evening show twice a week and the Saturday morning show.

He was a judge on Pop Idol and presented other ITV1 shows before leaving Capital in 2005 after 18 years to go to Magic 105.4 where he presented the breakfast show, Foxy in the Morning.

He currently is not hosting the show.

Fox, of Rumbold Road, Fulham is due to appear on bail at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on April 16.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police added this was not part of Operation Yewtree into historic sex offences, set up in the wake of revelations about Jimmy Savile.