A former Vogue model who threw boiling water at his ex-girlfriend after forcing her to strip naked has been convicted of a string of offences against two women following a trial at Southwark Crown Court, where a prosecutor described him as a “serial abuser of women.”
Archie Soames, 30, who modelled alongside his twin brother Karl for ASOS and appeared on the Vivienne Westwood runway at Vogue in 2018, was found guilty of coercive control, criminal damage, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and false imprisonment in relation to one former partner, Gabriella Marshall, and coercive control, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and false imprisonment in relation to a second, Jennah Calliste. He was acquitted of one count of false imprisonment concerning a third woman, Anna Treore, whom he met on Tinder.
Soames was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on 21 September.
The court heard details of a sustained campaign of abuse against both women spanning several years. Prosecutor Imogen Nelson described the attack on Ms Calliste on 21 May 2020 as particularly horrific. “He punched her repeatedly at one stage causing her to black out. He smacked her with a mop handle, forced her to strip naked, and threw boiling water at her. She ran totally naked to her neighbours’ flat into the shower to cool down the burns.” Soames was arrested at the time but Ms Calliste was “not supportive with the investigation” and no charges followed.
He met Ms Marshall in February 2023 and she moved into his Pimlico flat later that year. The court heard he slapped her in the face and kicked her in the groin before strangling her twice to the point where she was unable to breathe. In a further incident in July 2024, he punched her and knocked her to the floor before kicking her while wearing work boots from a construction job. He then forced open her phone and transferred £700 to himself before making “numerous threats that he would rape, kill and stab others.” He also destroyed several of her belongings, including her glasses and two laptops. After his arrest, Soames gave police a prepared statement claiming he had “never seen any injury on her and if she suffered any injuries he did not cause them.”
Nelson told the court that Soames had previously faced “strikingly similar” domestic violence allegations involving another partner but was acquitted by a jury at Isleworth Crown Court in 2019.
The case adds a grim footnote to an already troubled family history. Archie’s twin brother Karl Soames was jailed for three years in 2020 after trapping a woman at his Notting Hill home and subjecting her to a prolonged assault that included cutting off her hair, stabbing her with scissors, beating her head with a marble pestle and a metal pole, whipping her with a coat hanger, and threatening to have her raped and murdered if she tried to escape. He was said to have phoned a relative to brag about the attack while it was still taking place.
Archie Soames had denied all charges against him, including three counts of controlling and coercive behaviour, three of false imprisonment, three of criminal damage, two counts of actual bodily harm, and one count each of intentional strangulation and assault by beating. He has also released three music tracks under the artist name 2Crashi on his own label Clon3way.
