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Man guilty of assault after Barron Trump dialled 999
The Independent
|January 29, 2026
A Russian man has been found guilty of assaulting a woman after Donald Trump's youngest son told UK police he had witnessed the attack during a video call.
Barron Trump, 19, saw his friend being attacked by Matvei Rumiantsev in London on 18 January last year, a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court was told. The US president’s son told a City of London Police operator: “I just got a call from a girl... she’s getting beat up,” the court heard.
Prosecutors said that Rumiantsev was “jealous” of her friendship with Mr Trump. The 22-year-old, who lived in Canary Wharf, east London, was convicted yesterday of assault occasioning actual bodily harm between 17 and 18 January and of perverting the course of justice.
He was found not guilty on one count of rape and intentional strangulation relating to the same date, when Mr Trump made his report to police, and another count of rape and assault, alleged to have occurred in November 2024.
In a transcript of the call he made to the emergency services, Mr Trump said: “Oh, I’m calling from the US, uh, I just got a call from a girl, you know, she’s getting beat up,” the court heard.
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