Be aware: This text comprises descriptions of allegations of sexual assault.
Slowthai has been discovered not responsible in a rape trial introduced by two followers, BBC Information experiences. The British rapper and his good friend Alex Blake-Walker confronted three joint counts of rape, alleged by two girls who advised the court docket that the incident passed off at one among their houses, in Oxford, after a Slowthai live performance within the metropolis in 2021. Slowthai, whose authorized identify is Tyron Kaymone Frampton, reportedly broke down in tears as the decision was learn. Blake-Walker was additionally cleared on the three joint rape counts, in addition to a fourth rely of sexual assault.
The prosecution lawyer, Heather Stangoe, had mentioned in opening statements that Slowthai and Blake-Walker first met the ladies earlier than a 2021 present in Oxford and gave them VIP tickets. After the live performance, the ladies, a few of their buddies, and a bunch together with the 2 defendants went again to one of many girls’s houses for a celebration. As soon as there, in line with Stangoe, the ladies have been “remoted from their buddies” by Slowthai and Blake-Walker.
The prosecution alleged that, on a balcony-style roof of the property, the boys made jokes whereas raping and sexually assaulting the ladies. (Slowthai and Blake-Walker denied the fees, saying all sexual exercise had been consensual.) They allegedly “high-fived, mentioned ‘tag groups,’ and contemplated swapping the women,” Strangoe advised the court docket, in line with The Guardian. The second defendant advised the court docket that Slowthai raped her twice with Blake-Walker’s encouragement. “I mentioned cease to him,” she advised police in a video interview per week after the occasions. “Slowthai was making an attempt to tug my hair so I might proceed. They have been saying: ‘No it’s secure we’ll take care of you, it’s secure with us.’ They have been saying: ‘It’s so nice, can’t imagine that is taking place,’ and fist-bumping one another.”
She advised police that Slowthai pushed her in opposition to a wall after which to the ground earlier than raping her. Requested why she didn’t inform him to cease, she replied, “I felt helpless, like my physique was not my very own.” When the ladies’s buddies realized what was taking place, Strangoe added, they advised the boys to cease, at which level Frampton allegedly jumped down from the roof and ran away.
