Andrew Tate 'choked me until I passed out', UK woman claims

A British pistillate says Andrew Tate choked her until she mislaid consciousness portion they were having sex, and past subjected her to threatening behaviour.

The woman, who was 20 astatine the time, says she archetypal met the arguable societal media influencer successful August 2014.

She says consensual enactment turned convulsive erstwhile Mr Tate choked her and erstwhile she woke up, helium was inactive having enactment with her, adding: "I didn't consent to it".

Mr Tate said helium "vehemently denies" the allegations against him.

A spokesperson said Mr Tate does not condone unit of immoderate benignant towards women, and that each intersexual acts helium had taken portion successful had been consensual.

Evie - not her existent sanction - told BBC Newsnight she archetypal met Mr Tate successful a barroom successful Luton, earlier helium was an influencer with millions of followers. She says helium was moving arsenic a nine doorman and she was a student.

She says she had consensual enactment with Mr Tate earlier gathering him again astatine her level aboriginal successful 2014, successful precocious November oregon aboriginal December. It was past a consensual intersexual brushwood became violent, she says.

She says Mr Tate "put his manus connected my pharynx and strangled me". Evie says erstwhile she came circular "it was a spot confusing astatine first", saying the influencer was "still having enactment with me."

Evie, present aged 30, claims Mr Tate besides subjected her to convulsive threats, including threatening to termination her, until helium near the pursuing morning.

"He kept saying: 'I ain you, you beryllium to me'," she says. "All passim the nighttime helium was being reasonably assertive and saying horrible things." The adjacent day, Evie says the achromatic portion of 1 of her eyes had wholly turned red.

Evie did not study the alleged incidental to constabulary astatine the time.

Asked by the BBC wherefore she did not spell to the constabulary to study a rape, Evie said she did not realise she had been the unfortunate of an alleged crime.

She added: "I deliberation I knew what had happened I didn't consent to. But I didn't spot it arsenic rape oregon intersexual battle due to the fact that this was 10 years ago."

She says it wasn't until astir six years aboriginal erstwhile she described the alleged incidental to her friends that she began to deliberation she had been sexually assaulted.

Three radical who cognize Evie - and accidental they retrieve her describing what had happened - person told her lawyers they are prepared to springiness grounds successful tribunal to that effect.

She says she wants to stock her acquisition to rise consciousness astir Mr Tate and get justice.

"Hopefully it tin thatch women what [consent] looks similar and promote much women to travel guardant with stories," she added.

Evie is the latest British pistillate to articulation a planned suit against Mr Tate. Together with 3 others, they are pursuing civilian claims for damages.

The women, each successful their precocious 20s and aboriginal 30s, allege they were victims of intersexual unit by Mr Tate betwixt 2013 and 2016, erstwhile helium was surviving successful the UK.

Addressing the erstwhile footwear boxer, Evie added: "You're going to beryllium held accountable for what you've done."

In an interrogation with BBC News past week, Mr Tate denied fuelling a civilization of misogyny and defended his reputation.

He besides dismissed the testimonies of idiosyncratic women progressive successful the existent probe who person accused him of rape and exploitation.

He was archetypal arrested, unneurotic with his brother, Tristan, astatine their Bucharest home, successful Romania, successful December 2022. The brace were aboriginal moved from custody to location apprehension pursuing a ruling by a Romanian judge.

Prosecutors are investigating the brothers for crimes of suspected quality trafficking, rape and forming a transgression pack to sexually exploit women. No charges person truthful acold been brought against them. They contradict those allegations.

A spokesperson for Mr Tate told the BBC: "Andrew powerfully encourages women who person experienced assault, successful immoderate form, to study it to the applicable authorities.

"He is saddened that a fewer opportunistic women who helium has allegedly spent clip with astir a decennary agone person decided to effort and instrumentality vantage of his existent situation. We volition not beryllium commenting immoderate further connected anyone's alleged volition to prosecute ineligible enactment unless specified enactment is submitted to the authorities."

Watch the interrogation successful afloat astatine 22:30 connected BBC Two, oregon afterwards connected the BBC iPlayer.