Yung Filly, a British YouTuber turned rapper, has been charged with raping a girl in September after he carried out at a nightclub in a Western Australia suburb.
The Authorities of Western Australia introduced Thursday in a information launch {that a} man had been taken into custody in Brisbane earlier this week and was extradited to Perth for a courtroom listening to on sexual assault fees. The costs embrace 4 counts of rape, three counts of “assault occasioning bodily hurt” and one rely of impeding an individual’s “regular respiratory or circulation by making use of stress on, or to, their neck,” in response to the assertion.
A consultant for the 29-year-old rapper, actual identify Andrés Felipe Valencia Barrientos, didn’t instantly reply to The Instances’ request for remark. The Western Australia Police Power didn’t instantly reply to The Instances’ request for extra data.
Yung Filly allegedly raped a girl in her 20s in his resort room in Perth on Sept. 28 after he carried out a present in Hillarys, the assertion stated. The “Gray” and “Tempted” musician carried out at Hillary’s Bar1 Nightclub on Sept. 27, in response to a number of posts on the membership’s Instagram web page. He stopped at Bar1 as a part of his Australian tour, which additionally included reveals in Melbourne, Sydney and Gold Coast.
Perth barrister Seamus Rafferty SC represented Yung Filly in Perth Magistrates Courtroom and utilized for bail on the rapper’s behalf, the BBC reported.
Yung Filly was born in Colombia however is predicated in southeast London. He began creating on-line content material as a youngster however gained recognition for his “Asking Awkward Questions” YouTube collection. Regardless of his YouTube fame, the social media persona advised Starvation Journal in 2022 that his ardour was at all times music.
“I feel you simply hear the music and you may simply inform I’m so in love with it and I perceive it to such a excessive diploma that you would be able to’t evaluate me to nobody else,” he stated.
Yung Filly boasts greater than 1.8 million subscribers on YouTube and three.2 million followers on Instagram. He has hosted BBC Three’s “Sizzling Property” collection, amongst different initiatives, and appeared on Channel 4’s “Nice Superstar Bake Off” Stand As much as Most cancers fundraiser particular in 2022.
Yung Filly and social media star Chunkz gained the media persona prize on the 2021 Mobo Awards.