Russell Model has arrived for his day in court docket in London.
Model, who almost two years in the past was the topic of a Channel 4 and The Occasions exposé, has been charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault by London’s Metropolitan Police.
He has been pictured up to now couple of minutes arriving at Westminster Magistrates Court docket, the place he’s dealing with his first listening to.
Query marks had been raised over whether or not he would flip up or face attainable extradition. Model is at present dwelling within the U.S. and has been seen a number of instances at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, however the comic and TV host mentioned after he was charged that he’s “extremely grateful” to have the ability to defend the fees in court docket.
The costs towards Model relate to 4 separate girls. It has been alleged that Model raped a lady in Bournemouth in 1999; indecently assaulted a lady in 2001 in Westminster, London; orally raped and sexually assaulted a lady in Westminster in 2004; and between 2004 and 2005 sexually assaulted a lady, additionally in Westminster.
In response to experiences, court docket paperwork yesterday revealed Model is accused of indecently assaulting one lady in 2001 by allegedly “grabbing her arm and dragging her in the direction of a male bathroom” amongst others.
Upon the fees being introduced, the one-time Forgetting Sarah Marshall star, whose resident deal with is in Oxfordshire, mentioned he was a “drug addict, intercourse addict and an imbecile” throughout his youth, however he was by no means a rapist. “I’ve by no means engaged in non-consensual exercise. I pray which you could see that by trying in my eyes,” he advised his social media followers final month.
The revelations about Model led to a lot anger and trade introspection. Since then, the BBC, Channel 4 and Large Brother producer Banijay have all led inner probes, having labored with Model on exhibits up till late final decade. All these probes have led to apologies and additional revelations. Probably the most latest report from the BBC discovered that workers on the UK broadcaster’s L.A. bureau had “joked about” an incident through which the star was alleged to have uncovered himself to a lady in a toilet. Channel 4’s report, printed nearly precisely a 12 months in the past, unearthed “two new worrying allegations” towards Model, who had labored on Celeb Bake Off as just lately as 2018.
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