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The jury in the trial of a grime star charged with multiple sexual assaults has been discharged.

It is alleged Bristol-based grime artiste Andy Anokye raped several women and "filmed it for posterity".

Anokye, of Millennium Parade, is also known as Solo 45 and part of collective Boy Better Know.

But Bristol Crown Court heard the musician had a dark side in which he held women against their will and subjected them to humiliating sexual assaults.

Police called in found video footage capturing intimacy charged as rape, which Anokye claims was consensual.

The 31-year-old denies 31 charges involving four women spanning 2015 to 2017.

Allegations comprise of: 22 rapes; five false imprisonments; two assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two assault by penetration.

(Image: Solo 45 Twitter)

After a trial process beset with delays and legal argument, just opening prosecution evidence on the first complainant was presented.

On day 20 today (February 6, 2019) Judge William Hart Hart told the jury that at 7.55am a juror was taken to Bristol Royal Infirmary with suspected appendicitis and will not be fit for a week.

He said he was not persuaded to continue the case with 11 jurors.

He also said it was not logistically possible to go on with the trial.

The judge told the jury: “With the greatest regret I am going to have to discharge you and the absent juror from further service in this case.

“There really is no alternative.”

Judge Hart said when he saw the note about the ill juror, bearing in mind delays in the case, he told a fellow judge: “You couldn’t make it up.”

He added: “We’ve reached the end of the line. Thank you very much indeed, You go with my thanks.”

A date of November 11 has been fixed for the trial.