British rapper and YouTube personality Yung Filly has been found not guilty of raping a fan in Perth, Australia, but was convicted on two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm following an eight-day trial in the Western Australian District Court. The verdict, delivered on Friday, leaves his legal situation unresolved: a jury was unable to reach a decision on three further rape charges, meaning prosecutors must now decide whether to pursue a retrial on those counts.

Yung Filly, whose legal name is Andrés Felipe Valencia Barrientos, is a 30-year-old Colombia-born, South London-raised entertainer known for his work with the YouTube collective Beta Squad and appearances on Channel 4's celebrity Bake Off and BBC Three programming. He has amassed a substantial online following, with 1.8 million YouTube subscribers, three million TikTok followers and 2.4 million Instagram followers. He was on his first Australian tour when the incident occurred in September 2024, after performing at a nightclub in Hillarys, a coastal suburb of Perth in Western Australia.

The court heard that Barrientos and the then-20-year-old woman met in the venue's VIP area and later returned to his hotel room, where the pair initially had consensual sex. Prosecutors alleged that Barrientos became violent after the woman noticed him pointing his phone toward her and asked whether he was recording. He was accused of biting her face, neck and breasts — leaving extensive bruising and an open wound — as well as slapping and choking her, at which point prosecutors argued consent was withdrawn, triggering the six sexual penetration charges. Barrientos acknowledged biting the woman during his testimony but described the acts as