Report: How Barron Trump 'saved woman's life' in London

Donald Trump's youngest son saved the life of a woman in Londonby phoning the police when he witnessed her being beaten up over a video call, a court heard. Barron Trump spoke directly with police call handlers after calling 999 when he heard what he thought was Russian national Matvei Rumiantsev repeatedly punching his friend in a flat. Rumiantsev, 22, was jealous of Barron's relationship with the woman and flew into a rage when the American tried to phone her earlier that evening, prosecutors said. He then answered a video call from the President’s son to the woman’s phone, showed Barron her face then grabbed her hair and pushed her to the floor, shouting ‘you are not worth anything,’ Snaresbrook Crown Court, in north-east London, was told.

During the alleged attack, Rumiantsev called the woman a ‘[expletive]’ and a ‘[expletive]’ and kicked her in the stomach when she was on the floor next to the fridge, jurors heard. Barron, 19, spent some time working out how to reach the emergency service in Britain before telling a call handler: ‘I just got a call from a girl, you know. She’s getting beaten up.’ Jurors were played a recording of the conversation, in which he gave the woman’s address, then added: ‘It’s really an emergency, please. I got a call from her with a guy beating her up.’

Barron told the call handler he knew the woman through social media, after being ticked off by the operator for refusing to answer questions. The call handler told the President's son: 'Can you stop being rude and actually answer my questions. If you want to help the person, you’ll answer my questions clearly and precisely, thank you. So how do you know her?' Barron answered: 'I met her on social media. She’s getting really badly beat up and the call was about eight minutes ago, I don’t know what could have happened by now.' He then added: 'So sorry for being rude.'

The six-foot-seven college student is Trump’s fifth son, and the President’s only child with his wife, Melania. He has been credited as having raised the alarm during Rumiantsev’s trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Bodycam footage from police at the scene showed the woman telling officers ‘I am friends with Barron Trump, Donald Trump’s son,’ the Metro reported. One of the officers can then be heard telling a colleague: ‘So apparently this informant from America is likely to be Donald Trump’s son.’ The woman is then asked to call Barron back, and the American explains to officers that he could see her crying and being struck during the FaceTime call.

‘I called you guys – that was the best thing I could do. I wasn’t going to call back and threaten things to him because that would just make the situation worse,’ he told the officers. Giving evidence, the woman said: ‘He [Barron Trump] helped save my life. That call was like a sign from God at that moment.’ Rumiantsev has been charged with raping the woman on two occasions, assault, actual bodily harm and perverting the course of justice. Police attended his home in Poplar, east London, in the early hours of January 18, 2025, following two 999 calls from the alleged victim and one from Barron. The woman told officers she had been slapped, punched, kicked and strangled during the assault.

While in custody, Rumiantsev tricked officers into allowing him to phone the woman, and was overheard saying words to the effect of ‘while you are sleeping in your warm bed, I’m in jail,’ Serena Gates, prosecuting, said. Eight days later, the Russian made a call from prison to a friend named Arsen saying he had already posted him a letter that he should give to the woman in which he pleads with her to withdraw her statement. The alleged victim withdrew her statement but later retracted this withdrawal, telling police the original account was true and that Rumiantsev, a former MMA fighter, had also sexually assaulted her on two occasions.

She explained that the Russian would deliberately get her so drunk that he could have intercourse with her without her being able to consent. She said she had asked him why he did this to her and he responded ‘you never want to do this with me so I make you drink and do this to you.’ Sasha Wass KC, defending, has suggested that her accounts of the alleged attacks were ‘untrue and fabricated'. Rumiantsev denies assault, ABH, two counts of [sexual assault], intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice. The trial continues.