UK YouTuber Yung Filly charged with rape after allegedly 'strangling woman' on Australian tour

Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, aka Yung Filly, was arrested successful Brisbane connected Tuesday aft a pistillate successful her 20s alleged helium sexually assaulted her successful a edifice country successful Perth aft a show

British YouTuber Yung Filly, 29, has been charged with rape pursuing an alleged onslaught connected a woman.

The rapper - birthname Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos - was arrested successful Brisbane connected Tuesday portion touring Australia. The constabulary transported him to Perth connected Wednesday for a hearing, arsenic the alleged battle took spot determination aft a show.

Filly, who boasts 1.8 cardinal subscribers connected YouTube and has 3.3million followers connected Instagram, is accused of sexually assaulting a pistillate successful her 20s astatine his Perth edifice connected September 28.

The incidental reportedly occurred aft a show astatine Bar1 Nightclub successful the suburb of Hillarys connected the nighttime of September 27. Western Australia Police's intersexual battle squad charged Filly with 4 counts of intersexual penetration without consent.

He was besides arrested connected 3 counts of battle and 1 number of impeding a person's mean breathing oregon circulation by applying unit to their neck. He appeared astatine Perth Magistrates Court Thursday, wherever his exertion for bail was adjourned until aboriginal successful the day.

ABC Australia reports that the British amusement property is being defended by Perth barrister Seamus Rafferty SC. According to the publication, Rafferty said of Filly's bail being denied: "This has already made headlines. Given the quality of societal media, the quality of radical jumping connected bandwagons, fixed the quality of (the) powerfulness imbalance betwixt the parties."

Footage of the rapper, who precocious appeared connected Channel 4's The Great Celebrity Bake Off, performing astatine Perth's Bar1 Nightclub was posted to TikTok by the venue. The lively amusement had a packed assemblage rapping on with Filly's songs. Images of the woman's injuries were besides provided to the magistrate. "No mean idiosyncratic tin consent successful those circumstances," the authoritative said of the pictures, adding: "Across her assemblage is simply a past of convulsive acts, … we accidental those photos and what is alleged is beyond the pale, beyond what could beryllium considered to beryllium a consensual act."

In court, Filly's lawyer revealed that his lawsuit earns $700,000AUD (£360,000) a twelvemonth from societal media alone. Filly has implicit 3 cardinal followers connected Instagram and astir 2 cardinal YouTube subscribers. The salient online fig kicked disconnected his integer travel successful 2013 and past made a splash successful the euphony country 4 years aboriginal successful 2017.

Filly has made a sanction for himself arsenic an indispensable subordinate of the Beta Squad and for his collaborations with the Sidemen. His vocation trajectory soared acknowledgment to his appearances connected TV and arsenic a host. He has graced the tiny surface arsenic presenter connected the BBCs Hot Property and his ain Yung Filly's Celeb Lock-In.

* If you've been the unfortunate of intersexual assault, you tin entree assistance and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk oregon calling the nationalist telephone helpline connected 0808 802 9999

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