Barron Trump told police he was very close' to alleged rape victim, court hears

"A transcript of an emergency call released by the Crown Prosecution Service on Thursday shows Trump telling the operator that he met the alleged victim on social media. She's getting beat up, Trump said. Asked by the operator whether he had seen the alleged assault on social media, Trump said: No, no a video call. On Thursday the court heard that in a later email to Metropolitan police officers investigating the allegations, Trump relayed what the alleged victim had told him."

"He wrote: I was told by the victim, who I am very close with, that this individual was giving her difficulty for a long time. Describing what he witnessed on the video call, he said it was very brief indeed but indeed prevalent, the court heard. Trump said he video-called the woman in the early hours of 18 January last year, after previously suggesting to the emergency operator that she had called him."

"I didn't expect her to pick up due to the time difference, Trump said in his email to police, the court heard. It added: The phone was picked up. The individual who answered was a shirtless man with darkish hair. This view lasted maybe one second then the view flipped to the victim. As well as raising the alarm, Trump said he also asked two friends in the US to call the police, the court heard."

Barron Trump said he was very close to an alleged rape victim and raised the alarm after seeing a man repeatedly punch her on a video call. Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, faces trial at Snaresbrook crown court on charges including assault, two counts of rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice. An emergency-call transcript records Barron saying he met the woman on social media and reporting that "She's getting beat up." Barron emailed Metropolitan police relaying the victim's claim that the defendant had given her difficulty for a long time and described the video-call view flipping from a shirtless man to the victim, adding that he asked two US friends to contact police.

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