- A traumatized tourist called her parents and asked them to alert the police.
A Mallorcan taxi driver has been accused of attempting to rape a British woman before leaving her on the side of the road with her clothes torn.
The traumatised tourist called her parents and asked them to alert the police before being abandoned “half-naked” in an empty car park by the taxi driver between midnight and 1am on 15 September.
The local police attached to the Andratx Town Hall found the British woman crying after receiving the alert in the early hours of the morning and took her to the Son Espases Hospital in the Mallorcan capital, Palma, for a medical examination.
Both her dress and underwear were torn when officers arrived at the car park in the resort town of Camp de Mar on Mallorca’s south-west coast.
Detectives from another police force, the Civil Guard, identified the taxi driver who picked her up at a restaurant where she had been eating with her parents before staying alone for a drink after dinner by seeing security camera images from the nearby area of Port d’Andratx where she was picked up.
The tourist’s dress and underwear were torn when officers arrived at the car park of the Camp de Mar resort on Mallorca’s south-west coast.
He was initially interviewed as a witness before being told he was being placed under investigation after giving a version of events that a source close to the ongoing investigation said “didn’t add up.”
He has not yet been formally arrested but now faces a court summons, and well-placed sources confirm he was sacked from his job after detectives informed council officials responsible for taxi licensing in the area.
The taxi driver is believed to have claimed the British tourist was drunk and climbed into the front seat of his vehicle from the back seat before beginning to flirt with him as he drove her back to a beach resort where she was staying about 10 minutes from his pick-up point.
He claimed he ended up detouring and stopping at a parking lot along the way, but left when he saw she was calling her parents after telling him she did not want to have sex following his alleged attempts to “force” her.
Last week a man was arrested and two others placed under investigation after a British teenager reported being raped in Arenal d’en Castell, Menorca’s fourth largest resort.
Last week, one man was arrested and two more placed under investigation after a British teenager claimed she was raped and sexually assaulted in separate incidents by a tourist and two local workers, including a British man.
The suspect arrested was a 26-year-old Romanian tourist living in the UK who was staying at the same hotel on the island as the woman.
The 19-year-old whose complaint led to the arrest told police she had been sexually assaulted after having drinks at a pub in Arenal d’en Castell, Menorca’s fourth-largest resort on the east side of the island, where most of its attractions are located.
She is said to have returned to the hotel where she was staying with her mother “barefoot and in her underwear.”
The teenager also claimed she had been abused by two other men after the initial incident in the bushes between the pub and her holiday accommodation, who she claimed had taken advantage of the state she was in.
A judicial investigation is underway.
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