Title: Amelle and Freddie in the Sun
In Denial - March 26, 2008 11:02 PM (GMT)
There is an interview with Amelle and Fred on the sun website, I can't copy the article but maybe someone else can.
AmelleLover26m - March 26, 2008 11:15 PM (GMT)
Here it is...
SUGABABES star AMELLE BARRABAH and her boyfriend Freddie Fuller have been through hell for the last 14 months.
The pop singer’s world fell apart after her little sister Samiya accused Freddie and three pals of raping her after a night out.
Amelle, 23, suddenly found she had to choose between her boyfriend and her sister. She immediately dumped Freddie and put her chart career on hold to be by her sister’s side.
Amelle refused to question the horrific ordeal her sister had tearfully described in graphic detail.
And she ignored desperate pleas from Freddie that her sister was lying. Freddie passed two independent lie detector tests before Amelle would answer calls and hear him out.
His pleas were backed up as the police investigation faltered.
Detectives proved Freddie was five miles away at his parents’ house on the phone to Amelle when the alleged incident took place in January 2007.
Putting things straight ... Amella and Freddie
DAVE HOGAN
His friend John Carey, who Samiya also named as one of the attackers, was pictured 30 miles away on CCTV on the same night.
She said the “rape” took place at the parents’ home of Freddie’s co-accused Mark Marney after Samiya had been on a night out in Guildford, Surrey. They were both in the house at the time and had breakfast with Samiya in the morning after she accused the four of attacking her.
More contradictions in her witness statement appeared and in October police finally told Freddie there were no charges being brought against him and he was in the clear.
Samiya has since confessed to Amelle that “it was all a bad dream” and pleaded for her sister to forgive her.
But the damage had already been done and the couple have been abused in the street, with Freddie, who comes from a family of travellers, bearing the brunt of the abuse, once being called “a pikey rapist”.
Freddie, right with Amelle, has asked to set the record straight and clear his name once and for all. He and Amelle speak exclusively below.
The couple would also like to make it clear the fee for the interview was donated to Crisis, a charity supporting victims of rape.
‘ Either my boyfriend was a rapist or my sister was a fantasist. ’
Says Amelle Barrabah
I FEEL like I have had a nervous breakdown. I just shut off like a switch, my whole body.
Sometimes I’d have panic attacks. I physically and mentally couldn’t handle it. I just wanted to go into a room and never leave.
Being a Sugababe is the thing I’ve always wanted, I worked my whole life for this and I felt my own sister was trying to screw it up for me.
Freddie and me feel like we are the shadow of the people we were.
We have been living like hermits for months. It doesn’t seem real. The whole thing has been a huge mental strain, there’s so much to take in.
Flashback ... The Sun last year
When it started I was suddenly thinking, ‘My boyfriend has raped my sister’ and ‘is the person I’ve loved this whole, entire time lying to me and is a sicko weirdo?’
I kept going back to her because I needed answers. But her story kept changing. First she said it was a sex tape of her.
I didn’t think there was any room in my head to think she was lying, not one doubt in my head because no one would do that. She was talking about it all in so much detail.
It has blackened Freddie’s name so badly.
I rang the lie detector guy. I said, ‘I want it all in writing, all recorded’, everything like that. He did two tests then called me.
He said he was absolutely positive Freddie had done nothing wrong.
I just hung up the phone and said to Sam that he had passed two lie detector tests. She turned around and said, ‘I think I must have been dreaming then, Amelle’.
To turn around and say, ‘I must have been dreaming’, I need more than that. She was like my best mate, we’d do everything together. I feel I’ve lost a piece of me.
It is horrible hearing what people have to say. Hearing your boyfriend being called a rapist is awful. It makes me feel sick, people whispering about us. It has really messed up both of us in the head.
We’re almost scared to go out — the funny looks, people looking down on us for something we hadn’t done, for something he hadn’t done.
Someone wrote on a fan forum, ‘He should have his head chopped off, that dirty pervert’. It’s sickening.
Babes ... Amella and bandmates
If I was him I don’t think I could have kept quiet.
I’d have gone, ‘Screw you’, and told the world I am innocent. I don’t know how he has done it — keeping it together for so long, 14 months is a long time.
People need to know the truth about what really happened and that Freddie is completely innocent.
We’re emotionally drained, we are physically drained, we can’t do any more. We can’t mentally take it anymore. We just want to move on, leave it all behind us.
I still love her to bits you know — she is still my sister. I know Freddie doesn’t like to hear it.
I just can’t let the entire world think my boyfriend has done something he hasn’t.
It did put a strain on our relationship for ages. We’ve only just started getting back to normal. We are starting again and living our lives properly at last.
‘ People say 'he's a pikey rapist.' it makes me sick. ’
Says Freddie Fuller
SHE later withdrew the allegations but she had let everyone think I was a rapist.
I’m not exactly an angel, but I am no rapist. People were quick to judge me because of my background.
She is walking around like nothing has happened and people are still feeling sorry for her even though she withdrew the allegations. We are walking around with people looking at me saying I am a rapist.
On the night that Sam said all this happened we weren’t out with the same crowd.
We were out having a good night. I saw her, said ‘Hello’ gave her a kiss on the cheek, normal stuff.
Then I went home at the end of the night.
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A week later she complained to police that three of my cousins — Lee Windybank, John Carey and Mark Marney — had raped her.
First of all she was accusing them and I wasn’t involved.
The first story she brought up was about a camera filming her in the bathroom. Then she claimed there was a sex video of her on YouTube.
This is nothing to do with rape at this point — it was sexual stuff with Lee, because she was sort of seeing him at the time.
Then it went from being on camera to the three of them gang raping her.
Then it moved on three weeks later, when she accused me of being involved and the police asked me to help with inquiries. They hit me with the bomb that I was being accused of rape. It nearly killed me.
Mark’s parents were at the house at the time. She had a cup of tea with them in the morning after what she said was a four-hour ordeal.
Then it was all over the paper, everyone thinking I’m a rapist.
Amelle and me split up for about three months. I’ve never been so down in my life. I couldn’t stick it in England.
I got on a plane and went to Gran Canaria because I kept reading ‘Date Rape Freddie Fuller’ or ‘Sexual Predator Freddie’. Every time I looked in the paper I thought, ‘I can’t handle this’.
Amelle changed her number, I couldn’t get hold of her. Then I read in the paper that we had split.
It was all so wrong. For a long time I didn’t have any confidence, I didn’t what to go out.
We felt like scum of the earth.
Accuser ... Amelle's sister Samiya
I thought to myself, ‘I’m not being called a rapist for anyone’, so I booked up a lie detector expert.
I had to clear my name somehow. I was trying to prove my innocence and it didn’t work until I passed the lie detector test.
I told Amelle’s family, because she wasn’t taking my calls. The sisters still didn’t trust me so I did another one and passed it again.
Victims
Then Samiya turned around and said, ‘I’m really sorry I think I had a bad dream’.
Since then I’ve had people say: ‘That’s the rapist.’ It’s like a never- ending circle.
I actually tried pressing charges myself. I rang the detective looking after the case and told him she had admitted lying and I want to make a formal complaint against her.
I didn’t blame Amelle for sticking with her sister — they are family.
But I just said she should have known I would never be able to do something like that.
Being called a rapist is like being called a paedophile. There are real victims out there. She needs help.
People look at me like I’m a piece of s*** now. What I’d like is for people to know the truth. I want everyone to know I am not a rapist.
The law should be changed. I could have been doing ten years for something I didn’t do.
What has shocked me the most about this is that I actually liked her. I couldn’t hate her more now.
I never want to set eyes on her again.
===================================================
I am glad it is all over with now. Its about time the media let this go. Its somthing very personal to Amelle and the pleasing thing is like she says, things are better now.
SUGABABES star AMELLE BARRABAH and her boyfriend Freddie Fuller have been through hell for the last 14 months.
The pop singer’s world fell apart after her little sister Samiya accused Freddie and three pals of raping her after a night out.
Amelle, 23, suddenly found she had to choose between her boyfriend and her sister. She immediately dumped Freddie and put her chart career on hold to be by her sister’s side.
Amelle refused to question the horrific ordeal her sister had tearfully described in graphic detail.
And she ignored desperate pleas from Freddie that her sister was lying. Freddie passed two independent lie detector tests before Amelle would answer calls and hear him out.
His pleas were backed up as the police investigation faltered.
Detectives proved Freddie was five miles away at his parents’ house on the phone to Amelle when the alleged incident took place in January 2007.
Putting things straight ... Amella and Freddie
DAVE HOGAN
His friend John Carey, who Samiya also named as one of the attackers, was pictured 30 miles away on CCTV on the same night.
She said the “rape” took place at the parents’ home of Freddie’s co-accused Mark Marney after Samiya had been on a night out in Guildford, Surrey. They were both in the house at the time and had breakfast with Samiya in the morning after she accused the four of attacking her.
More contradictions in her witness statement appeared and in October police finally told Freddie there were no charges being brought against him and he was in the clear.
Samiya has since confessed to Amelle that “it was all a bad dream” and pleaded for her sister to forgive her.
But the damage had already been done and the couple have been abused in the street, with Freddie, who comes from a family of travellers, bearing the brunt of the abuse, once being called “a pikey rapist”.
Freddie, right with Amelle, has asked to set the record straight and clear his name once and for all. He and Amelle speak exclusively below.
The couple would also like to make it clear the fee for the interview was donated to Crisis, a charity supporting victims of rape.
‘ Either my boyfriend was a rapist or my sister was a fantasist. ’
Says Amelle Barrabah
I FEEL like I have had a nervous breakdown. I just shut off like a switch, my whole body.
Sometimes I’d have panic attacks. I physically and mentally couldn’t handle it. I just wanted to go into a room and never leave.
Being a Sugababe is the thing I’ve always wanted, I worked my whole life for this and I felt my own sister was trying to screw it up for me.
Freddie and me feel like we are the shadow of the people we were.
We have been living like hermits for months. It doesn’t seem real. The whole thing has been a huge mental strain, there’s so much to take in.
Flashback ... The Sun last year
When it started I was suddenly thinking, ‘My boyfriend has raped my sister’ and ‘is the person I’ve loved this whole, entire time lying to me and is a sicko weirdo?’
I kept going back to her because I needed answers. But her story kept changing. First she said it was a sex tape of her.
I didn’t think there was any room in my head to think she was lying, not one doubt in my head because no one would do that. She was talking about it all in so much detail.
It has blackened Freddie’s name so badly.
I rang the lie detector guy. I said, ‘I want it all in writing, all recorded’, everything like that. He did two tests then called me.
He said he was absolutely positive Freddie had done nothing wrong.
I just hung up the phone and said to Sam that he had passed two lie detector tests. She turned around and said, ‘I think I must have been dreaming then, Amelle’.
To turn around and say, ‘I must have been dreaming’, I need more than that. She was like my best mate, we’d do everything together. I feel I’ve lost a piece of me.
It is horrible hearing what people have to say. Hearing your boyfriend being called a rapist is awful. It makes me feel sick, people whispering about us. It has really messed up both of us in the head.
We’re almost scared to go out — the funny looks, people looking down on us for something we hadn’t done, for something he hadn’t done.
Someone wrote on a fan forum, ‘He should have his head chopped off, that dirty pervert’. It’s sickening.
Babes ... Amella and bandmates
If I was him I don’t think I could have kept quiet.
I’d have gone, ‘Screw you’, and told the world I am innocent. I don’t know how he has done it — keeping it together for so long, 14 months is a long time.
People need to know the truth about what really happened and that Freddie is completely innocent.
We’re emotionally drained, we are physically drained, we can’t do any more. We can’t mentally take it anymore. We just want to move on, leave it all behind us.
I still love her to bits you know — she is still my sister. I know Freddie doesn’t like to hear it.
I just can’t let the entire world think my boyfriend has done something he hasn’t.
It did put a strain on our relationship for ages. We’ve only just started getting back to normal. We are starting again and living our lives properly at last.
‘ People say 'he's a pikey rapist.' it makes me sick. ’
Says Freddie Fuller
SHE later withdrew the allegations but she had let everyone think I was a rapist.
I’m not exactly an angel, but I am no rapist. People were quick to judge me because of my background.
She is walking around like nothing has happened and people are still feeling sorry for her even though she withdrew the allegations. We are walking around with people looking at me saying I am a rapist.
On the night that Sam said all this happened we weren’t out with the same crowd.
We were out having a good night. I saw her, said ‘Hello’ gave her a kiss on the cheek, normal stuff.
Then I went home at the end of the night.
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A week later she complained to police that three of my cousins — Lee Windybank, John Carey and Mark Marney — had raped her.
First of all she was accusing them and I wasn’t involved.
The first story she brought up was about a camera filming her in the bathroom. Then she claimed there was a sex video of her on YouTube.
This is nothing to do with rape at this point — it was sexual stuff with Lee, because she was sort of seeing him at the time.
Then it went from being on camera to the three of them gang raping her.
Then it moved on three weeks later, when she accused me of being involved and the police asked me to help with inquiries. They hit me with the bomb that I was being accused of rape. It nearly killed me.
Mark’s parents were at the house at the time. She had a cup of tea with them in the morning after what she said was a four-hour ordeal.
Then it was all over the paper, everyone thinking I’m a rapist.
Amelle and me split up for about three months. I’ve never been so down in my life. I couldn’t stick it in England.
I got on a plane and went to Gran Canaria because I kept reading ‘Date Rape Freddie Fuller’ or ‘Sexual Predator Freddie’. Every time I looked in the paper I thought, ‘I can’t handle this’.
Amelle changed her number, I couldn’t get hold of her. Then I read in the paper that we had split.
It was all so wrong. For a long time I didn’t have any confidence, I didn’t what to go out.
We felt like scum of the earth.
Accuser ... Amelle's sister Samiya
I thought to myself, ‘I’m not being called a rapist for anyone’, so I booked up a lie detector expert.
I had to clear my name somehow. I was trying to prove my innocence and it didn’t work until I passed the lie detector test.
I told Amelle’s family, because she wasn’t taking my calls. The sisters still didn’t trust me so I did another one and passed it again.
Victims
Then Samiya turned around and said, ‘I’m really sorry I think I had a bad dream’.
Since then I’ve had people say: ‘That’s the rapist.’ It’s like a never- ending circle.
I actually tried pressing charges myself. I rang the detective looking after the case and told him she had admitted lying and I want to make a formal complaint against her.
I didn’t blame Amelle for sticking with her sister — they are family.
But I just said she should have known I would never be able to do something like that.
Being called a rapist is like being called a paedophile. There are real victims out there. She needs help.
People look at me like I’m a piece of s*** now. What I’d like is for people to know the truth. I want everyone to know I am not a rapist.
The law should be changed. I could have been doing ten years for something I didn’t do.
What has shocked me the most about this is that I actually liked her. I couldn’t hate her more now.
I never want to set eyes on her again.
===================================================
I am glad it is all over with now. Its about time the media let this go. Its somthing very personal to Amelle and the pleasing thing is like she says, things are better now.
~*!*~:Nicole:~*!*~ - March 27, 2008 05:52 PM (GMT)
Thanks for posting.
Mylan - March 28, 2008 08:52 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (~*!*~:Nicole:~*!*~ @ Mar 27 2008, 07:52 PM) |
| Thanks for posting. |
sorry 4 my previous post :(
THIS PICTURES MAKE ME FEEL SO SAD!! (the first 2)
aboutyounowchange - March 29, 2008 10:24 AM (GMT)
Yeah. I saw that in the paper. When I saw those pictures, I felt so sorry for Amelle.
aboutyounowchange - March 29, 2008 10:28 AM (GMT)
By the way, shouldn't this be in the Amelle section?
Mylan - March 29, 2008 12:51 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (aboutyounowchange @ Mar 29 2008, 12:28 PM) |
| By the way, shouldn't this be in the Amelle section? |
yes i had posted it also in the amelle section but they had it allready in the news one :P lol
aboutyounowchange - March 29, 2008 01:46 PM (GMT)
That's weird. Closing a topic in the right section.