Jury told rape-accused UK rapper an ‘entitled semi-celebrity’

A British YouTuber and musician accused of violently raping a fan after a gig in Perth was an entitled semi-celebrity who cared little for his alleged victim, a jury has heard. Rapper Yung Filly, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, is fighting six charges of sexually penetrating a 20-year-old woman without consent in a Perth hotel room in September 2024. The 30-year-old also denies impeding the woman’s breathing by applying pressure to her neck and three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.

Jurors have heard he allegedly bit, hit, choked and raped the woman after the pair had consensual sex, leaving her with significant bruising and visible bite marks on her skin. In closing submissions, prosecutor Danielle Clarke framed Barrientos as an “entitled man” with a “moderate degree of fame”, who was sexually violent towards an impressionable young woman. “She meant nothing to him,” Clarke told the West Australian District Court jury on Tuesday.

“What could have been and should have been consensual sex quickly escalated into sexual violence and a non-consensual nightmare.“ Clarke said one-night stands were not illegal. “The problem is, however, you run the real risk of not knowing what a person’s sexual boundaries, limitations or no-go zones are, which was what we say occurred in this case,” she said.

The woman consented to going back to the entertainer’s hotel room but that did not mean “she was going to do anything that the accused wanted”. “When you consider the little time he spent with her ... before he started biting, slapping and strangling her ...

the State says he simply did not care,” Clarke said. “It did not matter what she was wearing or how famous, important or entitled [Barrientos] perceived himself to be. “Everyone has the right to say no, and she certainly did not want to engage in sexual acts with him that involved violence and brutality.

“ Clarke cast the woman as an open and honest witness. But Barrientos had been evasive, unresponsive and tried to hide behind the term “love bite” as a means of explaining the injuries the complainant allegedly suffered, she suggested. “He had an answer for everything ...

and would not agree to anything that would make him look bad,” Clarke told the court. The jury was reminded that Barrientos and his bodyguard allegedly demanded the woman hand over her phone before the sexual incident began in his hotel room. The trial continues.

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