Model charged with rape, sexual assault
Russell Model charged with a number of counts of rape, sexual assault in U.Okay.
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Actor and comic Russell Model pleaded not responsible in a London court docket to rape and sexual assault prices involving 4 girls relationship again greater than 25 years.
Model, who turns 50 subsequent week, denied two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one rely of indecent assault. He stated “not responsible” after every cost was learn in Southwark Crown Court docket.
Prosecutors stated the offenses happened between 1999 and 2005 – one within the English seaside city of Bournemouth and the opposite three in London.
Model didn’t communicate to reporters as he arrived at court docket sporting darkish sun shades, a swimsuit jacket, a black collared shirt open beneath his chest and black denims.
Russell Model arrives at Southwark Crown Court docket in London on Could 30, 2025.
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He’s accused of raping a lady at a lodge room in Bournemouth when she attended a 1999 Labour Get together convention and met him at an occasion the place he was performing.
A second girl stated Model grabbed her forearm and tried to pull her right into a males’s bathroom at a tv station in London in 2001.
The third accuser was a tv worker who met Model at a 2004 party the place he allegedly grabbed her breasts earlier than pulling her into a rest room and forcing her to carry out oral intercourse.
The ultimate accuser labored at a radio station and met Model whereas he was engaged on a spin-off of the “Large Brother” actuality tv program between 2004 and 2005.
British legislation protects the identification of victims of alleged sexual violence.