Former I'm A Celebrity contestant denies rape (From Your Local Guardian)

Former I'm A Celebrity contestant denies rape

8:30am Sunday 19th August 2012 in Wandsworth By Jamie Henderson

Former I'm A Celebrity contestant Aggro Santos has denied raping two young women he took back to hotel rooms after performing at gigs.

Brazilian-born rapper Santos is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl in May last year after the University of Chichester summer ball while friend and co-defendant Tyrelle Ritchie, 22, allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on him.

The 23-year-old is also accused of forcing one of the victims to have sex with him after he appeared at the opening of Club Soho in Yeovil, Somerset, on September 25, 2010.

Santos told Chichester Crown Court how had performed at the summer ball in Chichester, West Sussex, on May 7 last year when he invited the alleged victim, her sister, who was a student at the university, and two friends back to his hotel.

Santos told the court how he went to his room with the girl, who had told him she was 19, and had consensual sex with her.

They were then joined in the room by Ritchie and her sister.

He said: "I noticed they were getting all flirty so I said why don't we give them some privacy and we went into the en-suite bathroom."

The court hear how after he heard Ritchie and the sister leave the room, he returned to the bedroom and had consensual sex with the alleged victim for the second time.

Santos told the court that while they were having sex, Ritchie came back into the room and asked the victim for oral sex - he said she did this while continuing to have sex with him.

Santos said that after the sex had finished, the alleged victim asked him to be her friend on Facebook and they used his laptop for him to send a friend request to her.

The trial has heard the alleged victim said that she had consensual sex with Santos on the first occasion but that he forced her to on the second occasion while Ritchie forced her to perform oral sex on him.

Santos, who is charged under his real name Yuri Santos, of Bickersteth Road, Tooting, denies two counts of rape.

Ritchie, of Vauxhall Street, Lambeth, denies one count of oral rape.

The trial continues.