Former model accused of abusing girlfriend said he was trying to get her out of his flat

A former Vogue model accused of abusing three former partners admitted he was in a ‘toxic’ relationship with one of them but denied assaulting her. Archie Soames, 30, exhibited a pattern of behaviour’ in which he ‘physically and mentally abused’ three ex- partners between 2019 and 2025, Southwark Crown Court has heard. Soames, a former British army soldier, denies 13 charges, including controlling and coercive behaviour, actual bodily harm, false imprisonment, intentional strangulation, and criminal damage. He met Gabriella Marshall,…