Zou Mouhao, 28, came to the UK in 2017 and studied at Queen’s University Belfast. In 2019, he entered University College London to pursue a master’s degree in mechanical engineering. In court, he told the jury that his father worked in a company and his mother was a teacher. He claimed to have studied hard when he was studying in China, and also boasted in court that he had “I have at least five new sexual partners every month.”
During the five-day trial, Zou Mouhao continuously provided new evidence and kept changing his testimony. He said that the parties in the video were consenting to be filmed, and later claimed that several parties were “acting out” a forced relationship fantasy.