Retrial for Aussie banker accused of Bumble assault

An investment banker accused of assaulting a woman he met on Bumble is facing a retrial next May. Varun Venaik, 31, kissed and touched the woman intimately with her consent after taking her back to his apartment in Upper Montagu Street, Marylebone, on 31 July last year. Australian Venaik was accused of raping the woman after she told him: ‘I don’t have sex with people on a first date.’ But giving evidence he told jurors of the ‘really good chemistry’…