Barron Trump, the youngest son of former President Donald Trump, played a crucial role in saving a woman’s life in London by alerting the police during a violent incident he witnessed over a video call, as a court was informed.

While on the call, Barron directly communicated with a 999 emergency operator after he realized that Russian national Matvei Rumiantsev was allegedly assaulting his friend at her apartment.

According to prosecutors, Rumiantsev, 22, was driven by jealousy regarding the woman’s friendship with the American teenager. This jealousy reportedly turned into rage when Rumiantsev attempted to contact her earlier that evening.

In a dramatic turn of events, Rumiantsev reportedly answered Barron’s video call using the woman’s phone, showed Barron her face, and then violently pulled her hair, forcing her to the ground while shouting derogatory remarks, as detailed in Snaresbrook Crown Court in north-east London.

Jurors were told that amidst the alleged assault, Rumiantsev verbally abused the woman with degrading terms and physically attacked her, kicking her in the stomach while she lay near the refrigerator.

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.

Barron Trump phoned the City of London Police from the US and told a call handler: ‘I just got a call from a girl I know. She’s getting beaten up’

The 19-year-old is Donald Trump’s fifth son, and the President’s only child with his wife, Melania

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 call was made at 2.23am on January 18 last year. 

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, 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 sex 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 rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.

Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, is on trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court accused of ABH, two counts of rape, intentional strangulation and perverting the course of justice

Barron Trump’s father, Donald Trump, is currently at the World Economic Forum in Davos