Not guilty verdicts were also returned for one charge of impeding the woman’s breathing by applying pressure to her neck and one count of assault occasioning bodily harm.<\/p>\n
The jury was hung on three other sexual penetration counts.<\/p>\n
Barrientos returned to court on Friday, where prosecutor Danielle Clarke said the influencer would be retried for the three charges.<\/p>\n
No date has been set for the retrial, and the performer remains on bail.<\/p>\n
The case will return to the same court next week for a bail variance hearing.<\/p>\n
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Judge Linda Black asked the opposing legal teams to consider whether they want a new judge to hear the retrial and whether the proceedings should be heard by a jury or a judge alone.<\/p>\n
Clarke said the complainant in the case was willing to give her evidence again.<\/p>\n
Barrientos’s trial heard that he was on his first tour of Australia when he met the woman in a nightclub VIP area.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors alleged the performer got aggressive during consensual intercourse.<\/p>\n
It was at this point that prosecutors said consensual sex stopped, triggering the six counts of sexual penetration without consent.<\/p>\n
The assaults the musician was convicted of stemmed from Barrientos biting the woman’s face and neck.<\/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
The trial has halted the career of the Colombia-born South London singer and comedian.<\/p>\n
As Yung Filly, he featured in the BBC’s celebrity version of Bake Off and presented light entertainment programmes including dating show Hot Property.<\/p>\n
Those appearances helped grow a large following across TikTok (three million followers), YouTube (1.8 million subscribers) and Spotify (850,000 monthly listeners).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British musician and media personality accused of violently raping a fan in a hotel will be retried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85,67,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-576335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}