Overview
- Prosecutors confirmed on Friday that they will seek a retrial on three counts of sexual penetration after jurors in Perth last month failed to reach verdicts on those charges.
- At an eight-day District Court trial in July, a jury convicted Andres Barrientos of two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm over bite injuries and acquitted him on some other charges.
- Sentencing for the two assault convictions has been put on hold until the retrial finishes, leaving the court timetable and final penalties unresolved.
- Barrientos remains free on a personal A$100,000 bail undertaking and faces separate hearings, including an August 27 bail-variation mention and a September 1 hearing on a new cannabis-possession charge.
- The case has centered on sharply conflicting accounts of consent from a 20-year-old complainant and Barrientos’s testimony that he believed the sexual activity was consensual, a dispute that contributed to the jury deadlock and the prosecution’s choice to retry the unresolved counts.