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Man, 22, Convicted After Barron Trump Accused Him of Assaulting London Woman on Video Call
After President Donald Trump’s son Barron Trump contacted authorities in the U.K. last year when he saw a woman allegedly being abused on a video call, the assailant has been convicted.
On Wednesday, January 28, 22-year-old Matvei Rumiantsev was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and perverting the court of justice following a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London, CNN reported.
According to the Associated Press, Rumiantsev was acquitted of rape and choking the woman on the night the president’s 19-year-old son called police as well as an additional rape and assault charge stemming from an alleged incident in November 2024.
As National Enquirer previously reported, the New York University student called 999 — the emergency telephone number in the U.K. — in the early morning hours of January 18, 2025, after seeing the unnamed woman, 22, being allegedly abused by Rumiantsev.
Around the same time the 999 call was placed, Barron was reportedly en route to Washington, D.C., for his 79-year-old father’s presidential inauguration.
The AP reported that Rumiantsev testified that he was jealous of his then-girlfriend’s apparent relationship with Barron, whom she would text, and he thought she was leading him on.
Defense lawyer Sasha Wass reportedly said that the woman exploited her ties to the teenager, who didn’t testify in the case. (The recording of Barron’s call to police and his follow-up email to investigators were used during the trial.)
The Daily Beast previously reported that jurors were shown a message Rumiantsev sent to the woman, which can be translated to: “You started calling him sweetheart, I felt so unwell.” When Rumiantsev was asked who “him” referred to, he said Barron.
It is unclear how the president’s son knows the unnamed woman, and the nature of their relationship is also uncertain; however, the Daily Mail reported that Barron has said he met her via “social media.”
Rumiantsev is scheduled to be sentenced on March 27, per the AP.
