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<\/p>\nA British musician and media personality on trial for violently raping a fan in a Perth hotel has been acquitted of three sexual penetration charges.<\/p>\n
But the jury found rapper Yung Filly guilty of two assault offences over his September 2024 encounter with a 20-year-old woman after a show.<\/p>\n
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British rapper Yung Filly, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos.\u00a0AAP Image\/Aaron Bunch<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old, legally known as Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, had pleaded not guilty to all 10 charges and faced an eight-day trial in the West Australian District Court, attended by dozens of the performer’s young fans.<\/p>\n
Barrientos was acquitted on Friday of three of six counts of sexually penetrating the woman without consent.<\/p>\n
Not guilty verdicts were also returned for one charge of impeding the woman\u2019s breathing by applying pressure to her neck and one count of assault occasioning bodily harm.<\/p>\n
But the media personality was found guilty of two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, related to biting the woman’s neck, cheek and breast during the sexual encounter.<\/p>\n
The jury was hung on three sexual penetration counts, with the case due to return to court at a later date.<\/p>\n
Barrientos, whose bail was continued until that August 21 mention, was on his first tour of Australia when he met the woman.<\/p>\n
The tour opened in Perth before moving to Queensland, where he was arrested and extradited to WA.<\/p>\n
Jurors heard the pair met in a nightclub VIP area in Perth’s northern suburbs after Barrientos performed there.<\/p>\n
The woman told the court Barrientos, who was enjoying a growing music and media career, was her idol and that she loved him and wanted him to be her future husband.<\/p>\n
She and the entertainer initially had consensual sex in the hotel.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Barrientos got aggressive during intercourse after the woman spotted him pointing his phone in her direction and asked if he was recording her.<\/p>\n
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Barrientos, whose bail was continued until that August 21 mention, was on his first tour of Australia when he met the woman.\u00a09News<\/p>\n
The alleged assault started with the rapper repeatedly biting the woman\u2019s face and neck.<\/p>\n
Barrientos was also accused of biting the woman’s breasts, allegedly causing an open bite wound on her right breast and bruising.<\/p>\n
It was also alleged that Barrientos choked and repeatedly slapped the woman on the face.<\/p>\n
It was at this point that prosecutors said consensual sex stopped, triggering six counts of sexual penetration without consent.<\/p>\n
Barrientos admitted while giving evidence to biting the woman without consent.<\/p>\n
He called them love bites and said they involved sucking and tongue movements and his teeth came into contact with the woman’s skin.<\/p>\n
Barrientos also said the sex was great and the woman grunted and moaned “in a good way”.<\/p>\n
Photos of the woman with extensive bruising to her face and neck and a bite wound on her right breast were shown to the court.<\/p>\n
The trial has halted the career of the Colombia-born South London singer and comedian.<\/p>\n
As Yung Filly, he has featured in the BBC’s celebrity version of Bake Off and presented light entertainment programs including dating show Hot Property.<\/p>\n
Those appearances helped grow a large following across TikTok (3 million followers), YouTube (1.8 million subscribers) and Spotify (850,000 monthly listeners).<\/p>\n
During the trial, some of Barrientos\u2019 fans posted images illegally recorded inside the courtroom on TikTok, prompting Judge Linda Black to ban them from the main courtroom.<\/p>\n