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Ex-Britain’s Got Talent finalist choirboy in court accused
of raping two women
Mike Sullivan
19:04, 13 Aug 2022
A FORMER Britain’s Got Talent finalist choirboy who landed a £1million record deal has appeared in court accused of raping two women.
Andrew Johnston moved judge Amanda Holden to tears with his performance of Pie Jesu in 2008.
BGT finalist choirboy Andrew Johnston has appeared in court accused of raping two women. Credit: Pixel
Johnston has been charged with two rapes in 2020
He finished third in the series but went on to record a top five album with Simon Cowell’s label Syco Music label.
But now he faces an appearance before a different kind of judge after being charged with two rapes in 2020.
Johnston, now 27, of Carlisle, allegedly raped one woman at an address in West London in November 2019. He is further charged with sexually assaulting her in March 2020.
He is also accused of raping another woman in a flat in South London between January and February 2020.
Johnston did not enter a plea when he appeared before Westminster magistrates on Wednesday and was granted bail. He will appear at Southwark crown court for a pre-trial hearing on 7 September.
Now sporting a ZZ Top-style beard, he looked a world away from the cherubic 13-year-old who dazzled TV viewers.
His singing career blossomed briefly after the show but stalled when his voice broke.
Although he joined the National Youth Choir in 2011 and took a degree in opera studies, his voice was also affected by a broken nose sustained during an unprovoked nightclub attack.
Since 2017, Johnston, also a jiu-jitsu black belt, has been working as a roofer.
‘Predator’ Benjamin Mendy ‘told victim “don’t move, don’t move”
as he held her arms behind her back & raped her’
Jemma Carr, Alice Fuller
16:30, 15 Aug 2022, Updated: 10:18, 16 Aug 2022
The Scottish Sun
BENJAMIN Mendy told his victim "don't move" as he held her arms behind her back and raped her, a court heard today.
The Manchester City left-back, 28, is accused of 10 offences against seven women between October 2018 and August last year.
Benjamin Mendy arrives at court today to face eight charges of rape
He denies eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted rape.
Mendy's co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 40, is accused of eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault relating to eight women, which he also denies.
The jury was told of a significant date involving a pool party, a trip to a nightclub and a post-club party back at Mendy's house, on July 23 and into July 24 last year.
Over this period, Mendy is accused of the rape of three women - one aged 22 and two aged 19.
There is more to this story at The Scottish Sun.
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Ronaldo's rape accuser 'appeals decision by US judge to throw out
civil case' after she claimed he attacked her in penthouse suite in Vegas
By MATT POWELL FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:18 EDT, 21 August 2022 |
A woman who accused Cristiano Ronaldo of rape has appealed against a US judge's decision to dismiss the civil case.
Kathryn Mayorga's lawyers will go to court in San Francisco this week in a bid to keep her £54million claim alive.
The case was thrown out in June by US Judge Jennifer Dorsey who said that Mayorga's lawyer had shown 'bad faith' and relied on leaked documents.
Mayorga, 37, wants to overturn a £275,000 out-of-court settlement agreed with him in 2010.
The alleged rape was said to have taken place in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009 after they met the same night in RAIN nightclub.
Cristiano Ronaldo (left) and his rape accuser Kathryn Mayorga (right) pictured on the night the pair met in Las Vegas in 2009 and the alleged rape took place
The allegation was first made in 2010 when a settlement was reached, three years later Mayorga claimed she was 'mentally incapacitated' at the time and filed a civil lawsuit.
The claim was made public in 2017, her lawyers have said she was inspired to speak out and make her claim public by the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment.
American model-turned-teacher Mayorga claimed the football star raped her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009 after the pair met on a night out (pictured) in the city
While no charges were brought, she launched a civil suit in a bid to over-turn the non-disclosure agreement.
Court documents previously revealed she is claiming £18m for her past 'pain and suffering', £18m for future 'pain and suffering' and another £18m for punitive damages.
In 2018, Ronaldo said: 'I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything I am and believe in.'
US prosecutors investigated but said he would not face charges.
Ronaldo – said to be worth £360million – is separately trying to claw back £37,000 of legal costs from Mayorga's attorney Leslie Stovall.
And there is also an ongoing case over whether Las Vegas police's investigative files from the case can be handed over to the press.
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