BBC’s Yung Filly hit with ‘extremely strong’ CCTV ‘evidence’ after assault charges
After being charged with a number of offences, Yung Filly has been confronted with “extremely strong” evidence.
After allegedly allegedly stoking a woman without her consent after an appearance at a nightclub, the BBC presenter and rapper was taken into custody by police in Western Australia. After his performance at the Bar1 Nightclub in Hillarys on September 27th, Filly, 29, who goes by the real name Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, is accused of sexual penetration with a woman in her 20s without her knowledge at his Australian hotel in Perth on September 28.
The Football Association has suspended an online cookery show that was hosted by M& and S with Filly in response to the allegations’ coming to light. On Tuesday, he was taken into custody in Brisbane and later extradited to Perth on Wednesday. The social media star was in court in Perth earlier today. The police prosecutor for Western Australia, Julius Depetro, claims that the British citizen is facing an “extremely strong” case.
Depetro asserts that the police will have photo and video evidence to support their efforts to disprove the allegations made against Filly. He is facing four counts of unrequited sexual penetration. He is also accused of three counts of assault and one count of putting pressure on a person’s neck, which is alleged to have harmed their normal breathing or circulation.
The prosecution’s claim that the alleged victim’s body had a “history of violent acts” was confirmed by the prosecution. Following the court hearing, he was later ordered to pay his bail and ordered to pay a sum of monies of £51,000. Filly is currently prohibited from leaving Perth and is required to make a daily report to the Northbridge Police Station.
The alleged victim’s defense attorney claimed the victim was intoxicated at the time of the September 28 incident. After Depetro claimed that his fame might have contributed to the incident, he had made a case for Filly’s bang. The defence said: “This has already made headlines. Given nature of social media, nature of people jumping on bandwagons, given the nature of (the) power imbalance between the parties”.
Images of the woman’s injuries were also provided to the magistrate. “No ordinary person can consent in those circumstances”, the prosecutor said of the pictures, adding: “Across her body is a history of violent acts, … we say those photos and what is alleged is beyond the pale, beyond what could be considered to be a consensual act”.
In court, Filly’s lawyer revealed that his client earns $700, 000AUD (£360, 000) a year from social media alone. Nearly two million YouTube subscribers and over three million Instagram followers are Filly.
* If you’ve been the victim of sexual assault, you can access help and resources via www. rapecrisis. org. uk or calling the national telephone helpline on 0808 802 9999