Yung Filly allowed to return to UK despite facing rape trial in Australia
He was arrested in October 2024.
Rapper Yung Filly has been granted bail to come back to the UK before his trial for rape in Australia.
The music artist, 30, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, was being held in Australia after being accused of rape by a woman while he was on tour.
In March, he pleaded not guilty to three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, one of strangulation and four counts of sexual penetration without consent.
Three months later, in June, he appeared in front of Perth District Court for his trial listing hearing, where two new counts of sexual penetration without consent were revealed for which no plea has been entered.
Barrientos’ case was listed for a 10-day trial starting next year on July 20, 2026.
Since then, his lawyer has been attempting to have his bail conditions changed – which included daily check-ins with the police – to allow him to return to the UK, which has now been successful, per The Mirror.
The music artist will have to return to Australia for his trial next year (Picture: AP)There are 18 bail conditions set to ensure he returns for his trial, and now he is reportedly set to fly back to Kent, England, next Tuesday.
His conditions include returning to Perth no later than January 7, 2026, where he will have to surrender his passport to the courts. He also has to keep his mobile phone and its location services on at all times.
The YouTuber, with 1.8 million subscribers, also cannot post about the case on social media or go within 500 meters of two people indicated to him in court through their initials.
He has been on TV before (Picture: Channel 4)Barrientos was first arrested in October 2024 in Brisbane before being extradited to Perth.
He has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in his Perth hotel room on September 28 after a performance at nightclub Bar120 in Hillarys on the night of September 27.
Over the years, he has appeared as a guest on several TV programmes such as Soccer Aid, BBC’s Would I Lie To You? and Channel 4’s The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C.
In 2017, he released his debut single Take Time.
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