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Slowthai found not guilty of raping two women at Oxford house party

Grammy-nominated rapper and co-accused, Alex Blake-Walker, cleared of three counts of rape

The Grammy-nominated British rapper Slowthai, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, has been found not guilty of raping two women at a house party after the musician’s gig at the Bullingdon, in Oxford, in September 2021. Frampton burst into tears at Oxford crown court on Monday as the jurors cleared him and his co-accused, Alex Blake-Walker, of three joint counts of rape, after 10 hours of deliberation. Stangoe said the women were “isolated from their friends”, then raped and sexually assaulted on the roof while the two men joked, gave each other high-fives, “discussed ‘tag teams’ and contemplated swapping the girls”.

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