Russian man jailed for assaulting woman before Barron Trump alerted London police in 'life-saving' call
US President’s son witnessed Matvei Rumiantsev attacking woman on FaceTime video call Source link
US President’s son witnessed Matvei Rumiantsev attacking woman on FaceTime video call Source link
A man has been found guilty of assaulting a woman after Donald Trump’s youngest son told UK police that he saw her being attacked on a video call. Barron Trump, 19, was in the US when he told a 999 call handler that a woman was “getting beat up” in London, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. Prosecutors said 22-year-old Russian national Matvei Rumiantsev was jealous of her friendship with the US president‘s son, possibly because of his “public profile”. He was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm between 17 and 18 January last year, and perverting the course of justice, after he wrote to the victim from prison asking her to withdraw her allegations. But Rumiantsev was cleared by the jury of rape and intentional strangulation relating to the same date when Mr Trump made his report to police, and another count of rape and assault alleged to have occurred in November 2024. The court had heard Rumiantsev answered her phone to a FaceTime call from Mr Trump and turned the screen to the …