Celebrity rapper ‘raped woman after being mocked’

A TEARFUL woman told how former I’m A Celebrity contestant Aggro Santos raped her in his hotel room in Somerset after she saw him perform at a gig.

Aggro Santos: Accused of raping woman. Picture: PA

• Aggro Santos, 24, allegedly raped woman in hotel room after being mocked

• Woman had met rapper at a gig before having consensual sex with manager

• Santos appeared in I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here in 2010

She told how the 24-year-old Brazilian-born rapper forced himself on her after he became angry at being mocked, telling her: “I’m blessed, Jesus blessed me.”

The woman claimed Santos confessed to attacking her when his manager came into the room.

Chichester Crown Court heard that Santos raped her after she and a friend saw him perform at Club Soho in Yeovil, Somerset, on September 25, 2010.

Santos, who is charged under his real name Yuri Santos, denies raping the woman, who is in her 20s.

The musician also denies a second allegation of rape in relation to a then 16-year-old girl in 2011 after the University of Chichester summer ball in West Sussex.

His friend and co-defendant Tyrelle Ritchie, 22, denies one count of oral rape in relation to that incident.

Jurors heard that after seeing Santos at a gig in Yeovil, the woman shouted out to him in the car park: “Oi, Aggro, let’s have a picture?” The musician is said to have replied: “Do you want better? Jump in.”

They got into a leather-seated 4x4 and drove to Santos’ hotel, the Yeovil Court, where the woman went on to have consensual sex with his manager in the room next door.

Jurors heard that while the pair were in bed, Santos and the woman’s friend came into the room, leaving her with the impression that the rapper wanted a foursome.

The woman asked Santos’ manager to order the singer out of the room, telling him: “Get him out or you’re not getting any.”

The manager ushered Santos and the friend out, leaving them to “carry on” for a further 10 minutes. When the manager got dressed to have a cigarette, the woman went next door to see Santos and her friend.

She said Santos, who she described as being well-endowed, then exposed himself.

At first the atmosphere was jokey but when she refused to perform a sex act on him and mocked his music, looks and appeal to women, he became angry, she said.

The woman said that, as she sat on the edge of the bed, Santos pushed her back by her shoulders before raping her in an attack which lasted seconds.

Afterwards, the woman said she got up and made for the door.

“I remember feeling just empty and drained,” she said. “I was screaming ‘Let me out’. He kept responding ‘I’m blessed, Jesus blessed me’.”

Jurors heard that Santos’s manager then opened the door as the woman continued to scream and he pushed the musician up against the wall.

As he asked for an explanation about what had happened, the woman said ‘Go on, tell him’. Santos is said to have replied: “Yeah, she said no but I was going to f*** her anyway.”

A taxi was called and the next day the woman said she blamed herself for the incident. She only reported the allegation after she read reports that Santos had been arrested for rape following the Chichester incident.

Santos’s debut single, Candy, featuring former Pussycat Dolls singer Kimberly Wyatt, shot to number five in the UK charts in 2010.

But he became more popularly known by his appearance in the 2010 series of ITV’s reality game show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, in which he reached the final six.