A Russian man has been jailed for 4 years for assaulting a woman in a case in Britain that unexpectedly involved the US president’s son Barron Trump, who advised UK police he’d witnessed the assault throughout a video name final 12 months.
Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, was sentenced at London’s Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, after he was discovered responsible in January of assault occasioning precise bodily hurt, British information company PA Media reported.
He was additionally discovered responsible of perverting the court docket of justice, a cost associated to a letter that Rumiantsev wrote to the woman from jail after the assault, requesting that she withdraw the allegations.
During the trial, Rumiantsev additionally admitted to being “jealous to some extent” over the woman’s friendship with Barron Trump, whom she had met on social media, claiming that he and the sufferer had had a dispute about it in 2024.
Trump, now aged 19, advised UK police in an emergency name on January 18 final 12 months: “I’m calling from the US, I just got a call from a girl… she’s getting beat up,” in accordance with a transcript.
“This was happening about eight minutes ago. I just figured out how to, how to call someone. It’s really an emergency.”
Trump later advised police that the video name with the woman had been “brief” however “prevalent.”
The woman, who can’t be named for authorized causes, advised the jurors that she believed Trump’s intervention had helped stop Rumiantsev from killing her, in accordance with British media.
Rumiantsev was discovered not responsible of 1 rely of rape and intentional strangulation referring to the identical incident when Trump had referred to as British police on January 18, the court docket heard.
He was additionally discovered not responsible of one other rely of rape and assault alleged to have occurred in November 2024, in accordance with PA Media.
