A friend of Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai forced himself on a woman at a house party after a show, a court heard.
Alex Blake-Walker is accused of raping a woman at a party in the early hours of 8 September 2021.
It happened after the rapper, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, performed a gig in Oxford, the city’s crown court heard.
Mr Frampton, 29, and Blake-Walker, 27, deny three combined counts of rape and one count of assaulting two women.
Slowthai had been performing at the Bullingdon music venue in Oxford, the court heard [BBC]
Blake-Walker of Wallbutton Road, south-east London, was a friend of the rapper and was one of his accomplices, jurors were told.
The prosecutor said he raped one of the women at the instigation of Mr. Frampton.
Frampton, of Wellingborough Road, Northampton, assaulted another woman twice at the instigation of Blake-Walker, the prosecution continued.
The prosecutor also said that they all assaulted a woman named Frampton who allegedly raped her.
Slowthai has been nominated for a Grammy Award in 2021 and a Mercury Award in 2019. [BBC]
The court heard that Mr Frampton had been performing at The Bullingdon music venue in Oxford city center last night.
After meeting supporters afterwards, he returned to his tour bus before being invited to a party at a house where one of the women’s group lived.
The first woman told the jury that she had climbed onto the roof of the house with the second woman, Mr Blake-Walker and Frampton.
She said that after talking they started kissing consensually, but Blake-Walker forced her to have sex with him.
Sheryl Nwosu, representing Mr Blake-Walker, said that a consensual kiss led to consensual oral sex.
“For love,” the woman answered.
“When he pushed me down, I said I don’t want to do that. I said over and over again that I want to go back inside.”
Denying that he was embarrassed, he explained why he fled the house, telling the jury: “I wanted to get myself out of a very scary situation.”
In a recorded interview with police, the complainant said she was “happy” Frampton was going home.
The trial continues.
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