Slowthai fan describes alleged sex assault by rapper's friend.
27-year-old, Alex Blake-Walker, is accused of attacking a women following a performance by the musician at The Bullingdon nightspot in Oxford during September 2021.
A woman has denied consenting to sex on a balcony in Oxford and described the incident as ‘a very scary situation’.
Blake-Walker, alongside his co-defendant, Slowthai, real name Tyron Frampton, both deny three joint counts of rape and one of sexual assault.
Heather Strangoe opened proceedings for the prosecution yesterday. The jury heard that the defendants had met a group of women before the performance, and provided some with tickets for later on in the evening.
Following the gig, the group of women met up with Frampton, 29, and his entourage at his tour bus where a ‘meet and greet’ was happening. The group was then invited onto the bus.
Ms Strangoe told the court the women encouraged the men back to one of their properties, it was then that Frampton reportedly said: “I’ll come to your party, the only condition is, no phones, no boys.”
The court heard that back at the property, the two women sat on the balcony-style-roof with Frampton and Blake-Walker, and it was here that the alleged incidents took place.
Sheryl Nwosu, defending Mr. Blake-Walker, claimed that the interactions between him and the alleged victim were consensual.
She told the jury that when the women met up with Frampton’s group at the tour bus that the conversations were “friendly”.
She added that the complainant’s group had extended an invite to Frampton and Blake-Walker to come back to one of their houses having originally been invited to stay on the bus and continue to the next stop on the tour, Southampton.
The first complainant told the court that she had gone onto the roof of that property with the second complainant and both Frampton and Blake-Walker.
She said after talking they shared a consensual kiss, but then Blake-Walker forced her to perform a sex act upon him.
The complainant said she didn’t want to do ‘anything more than kissing’, before later allegedly repeating that she wanted ‘to go back inside.’
Ms Nwosu continued with her questioning, stating that when Blake-Walker kissed one of the women, his touching was not ‘aggressive’, to which the complainant agreed. The defence claimed that this lack of aggression continued to when oral sex was given.
The complainant denies this, telling the jury that ‘when he pushed me down, I said ‘I didn’t want to do that’.’
Ms Nwosu suggested the reason she stopped the act and left was that she heard voices coming from the room adjacent to the roof, and felt ‘embarrassment’ at being seen.
The complainant replied: “That’s not what caused me to stop – I didn’t want to do it in the first place.
“It was a very scary time, and it all happened very quickly. I wanted to get myself out of a very scary situation.”
The case will resume today with questioning from Frampton’s representation, Patrick Gibbs KC.