Embassy teenager in court over rape claim

The son of a Mongolian Embassy employee appeared in court today accused of repeatedly raping a 16-year-old girl in Hyde Park.

Javkhlanbayar Gantumur, 18, allegedly grabbed his victim at a bus stop near the Albert Hall Memorial between 1am and 2am last Friday, forced her into the park and subjected her to a prolonged "sexual ordeal".

He is also accused of robbing her of her mobile phone and £130 in cash.

The Mongolian government has waived the diplomatic immunity Gantumur would be entitled to as an embassy worker's child under the 1961 Vienna convention.

Gantumur listened intently as the proceedings at Westminster magistrates' court were translated by a interpreter.

Melanie Lee, prosecuting, told the court that Gantumur had forced his victim into the park by claiming he had a knife.

District Judge Daphne Wickham remanded him in custody to appear at Southwark crown court on 7 February.

Gantumur, who lives at the Mongolian Embassy in Kensington Court, has not entered pleas to four counts of rape, a sexual assault and two robberies.