Court proceedings revealed that Barron Trump, now 19, contacted British police on January 18, 2025, after receiving a distressed call from a woman he had met on social media.
A United Kingdom court has found a 22-year-old Russian man guilty of assaulting a woman in a disturbing case that drew unexpected involvement from Barron Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump, who alerted UK police after witnessing the attack during a video call.
Matvei Rumiantsev was found guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London of assault occasioning actual bodily harm between January 17 and 18, 2025, as well as perverting the course of justice.
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Court proceedings revealed that Barron Trump, now 19, contacted British police on January 18, 2025, after receiving a distressed call from a woman he had met on social media.
“I’m calling from the US, I just got a call from a girl… she’s getting beat up,” Trump was quoted by CNN.
“This was happening about eight minutes ago. I just figured out how to, how to call someone. It’s really an emergency.”
Trump later explained to investigators that the video call was brief but alarming.
In an email to police, he said that “a shirtless man with darkish hair” picked up the phone, and moments later he saw the woman “getting hit while crying.”
The victim, whose identity is protected by law, told jurors that Trump’s intervention helped save her life, saying his call to police prevented Rumiantsev from killing her, British media reported.
However, the court acquitted Rumiantsev of one count of rape and intentional strangulation linked to the same January incident.
He was also found not guilty of a separate charge of rape and assault alleged to have occurred in November 2024.
Despite those acquittals, prosecutors maintained that the evidence clearly established Rumiantsev’s responsibility for violently assaulting the woman and attempting to obstruct justice afterward.