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Caroline Flack will face a trial after beingcharged with assaultearlier this month, according to multiple reports.
She pleaded not guilty the charge of assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton, a former professional tennis player and model,CNNreports via U.K.’s PA news agency.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson previously confirmed to PEOPLE that they were called to a residential address in Islington, where they “treated two people at the scene and took one person to hospital.”
At the time, a spokesman for Flack addressed the news in a statement to theBBC: “We confirm that police attended Caroline’s home following a private domestic incident. She is co-operating with the appropriate people to resolve matters. We will not be making any further comment for legal reasons.”
On Monday, Flack’s lawyer Paul Morris reportedly told the judge that Burton did not support the prosecution and was a witness, “not a victim.” But the prosecutor reportedly insisted Burton “is a victim” and “sustained a significant injury to his head.”
PEOPLE has reached out to Morris for comment.
According to theBBC, the prosecutor claimed the alleged attack “occurred after Ms Flack found texts on her boyfriend’s phone while he was asleep, leading her to believe he was cheating.”
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Flack was released on bail with conditions that prevent her from having contact with Burton ahead of the trial on March 4, according to the reports.
She addressed the court appearance on her Instagram Story on Monday, writing, “Thankfully I know a lot of you will not believe all that you have heard and read following today’s court hearing…Thank you for your continued support and love…It’s going to be a relief when I am able to give my side of the story, when I’m allowed to x.”
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Burton, 27, also spoke out on his Instagram Story.
“It’s heartbreaking I can’t see my girlfriend over Christmas,” he wrote. “What I witnessed today was horrible. She did not hit me with a lamp…Arguments do happen every day in every relationship. Gutted I am not allowed to protect her right now.”
Caroline Flack and Lewis Burton.Lewis Burton/Instagram
source: people.com
