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    Home - Entertainment - Britain’s Got Talent finalist Andrew Johnston ‘put hands around woman’s throat’ during alleged rape
    Entertainment Updated:April 25, 2025

    Britain’s Got Talent finalist Andrew Johnston ‘put hands around woman’s throat’ during alleged rape

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    • Andrew Johnston, a former contestant on Britain’s Got Talent, is on trial for allegedly raping two women, with the prosecution detailing instances of non-consensual sexual activity.
    • Testimonies from the complainants describe incidents where Johnston allegedly removed condoms without consent and used physical restraint, including placing hands around their throats.

    Britain’s Got Talent finalist Andrew Johnston ‘put hands around woman’s throat’ during alleged rape

    A former Britain’s Got Talent contestant has been accused of raping two women, a court heard.

    Andrew Johnston – who competed as a singer on the ITV talent show in the 2008 series – is on trial at Southwark Crown Court and charged with raping and sexually assaulting one woman, and raping another woman.

    He has denied the allegations, while the trial is ongoing.

    Maryam Syed KC, prosecuting, told the jury on Thursday that the alleged offences happened a number of years after the 30-year-old singer’s time on the TV programme.

    Syed said Johnston had been ‘engaging in consensual sexual activity’ with one complainant, but he removed his condom, and the complainant ‘repeatedly told Mr Johnston to stop’ but he did not.

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    A video interview of one of the complainants was played to the jury, and she said: ‘He removed the condom without my knowledge or consent and continued to have sex with me. I then said to him “stop” and I said it between five or six times and he did not stop.’

    The woman said Johnston held one hand on her throat and her arms were pinned with his other hand.

    She said she ‘slammed on his chest with both hands, and he then stopped.

    The woman said she then told him ‘when I say stop you have to stop’, claiming he replied: ‘Sorry I didn’t hear you.’

    She alleged she saw him at a club at a later day, and he ‘groped my bum’ and outside he ‘grabbed me by the shoulders and forcibly kissed me’.

    Under cross-examination on Thursday afternoon, Rupert Kent, defending, put to the woman that Johnston did not remove the condom while having sex with her, to which she said he did.

    Kent suggested to the woman that at no time did the defendant hold her down by the wrists or neck, but she replied ‘the defendant did that’.

    He also put to the woman that at no time did she tell the defendant to stop, and she insisted ‘I told him to stop multiple times’.

    Kent suggested to the woman that she ‘exaggerated or embellished what might be considered hard or energetic consensual sex and moved it into the realms of non-consensual sex’, and the woman replied ‘no’.

    She also dismissed his suggestion that her allegation was a ‘deliberate lie’.

    The other complainant told police she had engaged in consensual sexual activity with the defendant and asked him to use a condom, the prosecution said.

    The woman said she started to feel the defendant’s hands around her neck and ‘no matter how many times she removed them, she said the defendant kept on putting his hands back around her throat’, Syed said.

    It’s alleged Johnston then stopped and removed the condom, then carried on with the intercourse, and she ‘indicated that he once again put his hands around her throat’.

    Syed said: ‘The issue in this trial will be that in respect of the allegations whether there was non-consensual sexual activity and whether there was sexual activity at all in respect of the sexual assault.

    ‘The prosecution say that these two young women have given truthful accounts of what occurred with this defendant Andrew Johnston when they were alone with him, which have striking hallmarks of similarity.’

    She said the similarity was ‘not because there have been heads put together’ but ‘because of the nature of the way in which this defendant sexually abused both of them’.

    The defendant was arrested and interviewed by police and gave a prepared statement then answered no comment to further questions, Syed added.

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    Savanah is the Fashion news correspondent for WTX News. She has over 15 years experience in journalism and communications on a range of organisations, with roles that range from Reporting and Editorial to Brand Account Manager and production roles. She regularly writes features in Middle eastern Fashion and the latest trends coming through the world of fashion.

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