A woman who has accused Grammy nominated rapper Slowthai of rape has denied she was competing for his affection with a friend - and rejected the suggestion she was jealous when he kissed someone else.
Cancelled singer Slowthai - whose real name is Tyron Frampton, 29 - is currently on trial at Oxford Crown Court and facing two counts of rape relating to an incident alleged to have happened in September 2021: which he has denied and plead not guilty to. He is standing alongside fellow accused Alex Blake-Walker, 27, who has also plead not guilty to the charges.
On Friday, the court heard evidence from a woman who accused Frampton of rape - where she claimed she was attacked on the roof of a property in Oxford after they met in The Bullingdon bar and went back to a flat for a house party. The judge and jury listened as the woman explained she had broken up with her boyfriend the day before the alleged attack and had gone out with friends - during which time she admitted she had taken ketamine and cocaine as well as drinking.
The woman told the jury: “I didn’t get angry, I was just sad. As the night wore on it wasn’t an issue. By the end of the night, I have pretty much forgotten about it. When I woke up, yes, I decided to take drugs and drink.”
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Getty Images)She denied initiating sexual contact with Frampton and the suggesting she grew jealous when he kissed one of her friends. Heather Stangoe, prosecuting, asked: “It has been suggested to you on behalf of Mr Frampton that you were in competition with your friend, and you wanted to get her off the roof because you were jealous?”
The woman replied: “It’s just not true. She was a similar age to my sister, and I just felt protective. She was a sweet girl and didn’t deserve whatever was going to happen to her.” The prosecutor asked: “What is your response to the suggestion you were in competition with other girls in that house?” The woman responded: “It’s disgusting. These are my friends. It’s not a competition. He is not a prize.”
The complainant was also asked to comment on suggestions she had made the allegations because one of her friends had called her a “slut” the day after the alleged rape. The woman replied: “That word doesn’t bother me. It really wasn’t that big of a deal. It was her anger – not the words she was calling me.”
The court has heard after arriving at the flat, Frampton and Blake-Walker went on to the roof of the property with the two complainants. The prosecution alleges Blake-Walker raped the first complainant while being encouraged by Frampton, and that Frampton twice raped the second complainant while being encouraged by Blake-Walker.
Patrick Gibbs KC, representing Frampton, suggested the complainant and the musician began kissing and consensually touching each other, while Blake-Walker was kissing the other woman. He asked the woman: “Then you initiated oral sex?”
She replied: “I didn’t want to do that, no. It was not a two couples thing. I vomited, I didn’t want to be there. She didn’t want to be there. I heard her trying to move away and retching. He was trying to do so many disgusting things.” Mr Gibbs asked: “You did this enthusiastically didn’t you?” She replied: “No, I didn’t.”
The complainant said Frampton then pushed her up against a wall and began to rape her – denying she was an active participant. She said: “I was completely silent. I didn’t lie down – I was moved around and pushed onto the floor. We were interrupted when a friend came and opened the window and shouted and that’s when he jumped off the roof and ran off. I was not a person. He was not doing anything for me – it was entirely about him.”
Mr Gibbs asked: “You say you were assaulted on the way back to the house, assaulted in the garden, assaulted on the stairs, you were assaulted on the roof, and you were raped and during all of that, you say you protested or not?”
The woman replied: “No, I didn’t. I just did not want to be a fuss and make a big deal. I don’t like making a big deal of things. I thought I would see it out, go back home to bed and pretend like things didn’t happen. It wasn’t a regret later. It was immediately after I knew the whole thing had been an assault. The whole time it was happening, I immediately knew I had been raped.”
The trial continues.
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