Barron Trump Contacted UK Police After Witnessing Alleged Attack via Video Call

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London: Barron Trump, the youngest son of US President Donald Trump, helped a London police investigation after alerting authorities to an alleged attack on a woman he had met through social media, a UK court heard this week.

The 19-year-old’s involvement in the case emerged during the trial of Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, who is accused of assault, two counts of rape and other offences. Rumiantsev has denied all charges. The alleged victim cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Jurors were told that Barron Trump contacted British police from the United States on January 18, 2025, after witnessing what he believed to be an assault during a video call with the woman, whom he described to officers as someone he was “very close with.”

According to court testimony, Trump told a police operator that he had received a call from a woman who was “getting really badly beat up,” adding that the video call had ended several minutes earlier and he feared for her safety.

Initially reluctant to explain how he knew the woman, Trump later told police he had met her on social media. Recordings of the call were played to the jury during proceedings this week.

British newspaper Metro, which first reported the case, said the defendant was the woman’s former boyfriend and had been jealous of her friendship with Barron Trump.

The woman told jurors that Trump’s intervention “helped save my life,” according to the report.

Jurors also heard evidence of an email sent to London police by Barron Trump on May 2, 2025, in which he described briefly seeing a shirtless man during the video call before the image switched back to the victim. He said the woman had told him the man had been causing her difficulties for some time.

Giving evidence later, Rumiantsev, a Russian national living in London, told the court he had been upset after discovering the complainant’s friendship with Barron Trump and said the pair had argued about it on several occasions.

The trial is ongoing.