BBC star and £1.5million British YouTuber Yung Filly is arrested in Australia over alleged hotel rape Yung Filly will appear in court after being accused of raping a woman in her 20s READ MORE: Heartbroken mother's anguish as car thief son Brendon Liebe who was gunned down by police dies just days after car park shootout By Ashley Nickel and Arthur Parashar Published: 07:24, 10 October 2024 | Updated: 07:49, 10 October 2024 e-mail British YouTuber and BBC star Yung Filly has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in a hotel in Australia. Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, 29, was detained in Brisbane on Tuesday and extradited interstate to Perth on Wednesday.
The YouTube star is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in his hotel on September 28 after a performance at Bar1 Nightclub in Hillarys, Perth, on the night of September 27. The rapper, whose rapid rise to fame saw him land his own BBC show called Hot Property in 2019 , had performed at Havana Nightclub on the Gold Coast two days prior to his arrest. He has been charged with four counts of sexual penetration without consent, three counts of assault, and one count of impede a person's normal breathing or circulation by applying pressure to their neck.
Mr Barrientos, who was born in Colombia but moved to the UK as a refugee when he was a child, will face Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday. Sex assault squad detectives arrested 29-year-old Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, known as Yung Filly, in Brisb.