{"id":142566,"date":"2023-10-06T21:43:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=142566"},"modified":"2023-10-06T21:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T21:43:41","slug":"guest-of-anthony-joshua-26-cleared-of-raping-woman-after-house-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/world-news\/guest-of-anthony-joshua-26-cleared-of-raping-woman-after-house-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest of Anthony Joshua, 26, cleared of raping woman after house party"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Guest, 26, accused of assaulting woman as she slept after a house party hosted by boxing star Anthony Joshua sobs and thanks the jury as he is cleared of rape<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aidan Simmons, 26, was cleared of rape after meeting the woman at the party\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A guest who was accused of assaulting a woman as she slept after a party thrown by former world boxing champion Anthony Joshua sobbed and thanked the jury as he was cleared today.<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Simmons, 26, went to the woman&#8217;s friend&#8217;s home after leaving the ticketed event at the boxer&#8217;s home in north London in the early hours of 18 September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons introduced himself to the two women as &#8216;Sunny&#8217; and said he was attending the party at Joshua&#8217;s gated mansion with his friend &#8216;Angus&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The four of them went back to her friend&#8217;s home in Hackney, east London and picked up a bottle of wine on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The woman went straight upstairs to bed and called her boyfriend before falling asleep, jurors heard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/21\/76085433-12603677-Simmons_pictured_today_of_Docklands_east_London_denies_rape_He_a-m-49_1696623764421.jpg\" height=\"914\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Aidan Simmons, 26, of Docklands, east London, was cleared of rape by a jury after claiming the sex was consensual<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/21\/76085435-12603677-He_and_the_alleged_victim_met_at_a_house_party_hosted_by_former_-a-50_1696623807864.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He and the alleged victim met at a house party hosted by former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (pictured in April)<\/p>\n<p>She claimed her &#8216;next recollection&#8217; was waking up lying on her back with Simmons having sex with her.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons agreed he had sexual activity with the woman but insisted it was fully consensual.<\/p>\n<p>He denied rape and was cleared by a jury of six women and six men after three hours and 46 minutes of deliberation at the Old Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons said to the jury: &#8216;Thank you, thank you so much. God is with you, I love you, I love you&#8217; before sitting and sobbing in the dock.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives in the public gallery also sobbed and thanked the jury.<\/p>\n<p>He had paid a \u00a310,000 surety to be granted bail which will now be returned.<\/p>\n<p>Giving evidence Simmons denied rape and branded the woman an &#8216;attention seeker&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;I am innocent, you cannot even imagine what this has done to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have lost my position as manager (at work) and I am on anti-depressants, just because a girl wants to get some attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I went up to talk to her and I am 100 per cent sure that she was happy that I was there and that she let me in the bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now I have to go through this and put my family through this, my mental health has gone down a lot and I have lost positions in my job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I did not know she was sleeping. I would have never known that she was not aware of my presence otherwise I would not have set foot in her bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As far as I am aware, she was consenting and aware of what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t get excited by having sex with an unconscious person, it does not turn me on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/21\/76085431-12603677-Aidan_Simmons_26_pictured_at_the_Old_Bailey_today_allegedly_assa-a-51_1696623821894.jpg\" height=\"1239\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Simmons said he had lost his managing position and was on anti-depressants due to the allegations\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Julie Whitby earlier told the jury: &#8216;At some stage in the evening the woman&#8217;s friend had a drink with Sunny and this developed into flirting, and they exchanged a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The house party was at Anthony Joshua&#8217;s home, he was present, the parties may have seen him, but they did not know him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was a large house which had a gated premises. It was also a party where people were there and had to buy tickets.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The complainant told her friend she wanted to leave at 4am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The parties ordered an Uber, but the Uber rider didn&#8217;t show up or cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So the female&#8217;s friend then arranged for them to get a lift with Sunny and Angus in a different Uber.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The four of them then made their way back to her friend&#8217;s home in Hackney, east London and picked up a bottle of wine on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged victim went straight upstairs to bed and called her boyfriend before falling asleep, jurors heard.<\/p>\n<p>She said the &#8216;next recollection&#8217; she had was waking up lying on her back with Simmons having sex with her.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons was arrested at his home on the evening of 18 September and he was taken to the police station.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, of Docklands, east London, denied and was cleared of rape.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12603677\/Guest-26-accused-assaulting-woman-slept-house-party-hosted-boxing-star-Anthony-Joshua-sobs-thanks-jury-cleared-rape.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest, 26, accused of assaulting woman as she slept after a house party hosted by boxing star Anthony Joshua sobs&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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