A Majorcan taxi driver has been accused of trying to r-pe his British fare before dumping her by the side of the road with torn clothing.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The traumatised holidaymaker rang her parents and asked them to alert the police before being abandoned ‘semi-naked’ in an empty car park by the cabbie between midnight and 1am on September 15.
Local police employed by Andratx Town Hall found the British woman crying after receiving the early-hours alert and took her to Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital Palma for a medical examination.
Both her dress and underwear were ripped when officers reached the car park in the resort village of Camp de Mar on Majorca’s southwest coast.
POLICE INVESTIGATION
Detectives from another police force, the Civil Guard, identified the taxi driver who picked her up from a restaurant where she had been eating with her parents before staying alone for after-dinner drinks by viewing CCTV footage from the nearby area of Port d’Andratx where she was picked up.
He was initially interviewed as a witness before being told he was being placed under investigation after giving a version of events a source close to the ongoing probe said ‘didn’t add up.’
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WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW?
He has not yet been formally arrested but is now facing a court summons, with well-placed sources confirming he was fired from his job after detectives informed council officials responsible for taxi licensing in the area.
The cabbie is understood to have claimed the British holidaymaker was drunk and climbed into the front seat of his vehicle from the back seat before beginning to flirt with him as he was driving her back to a beach resort where she was staying around 10 minutes from her pick-up point.
He claimed he ended up diverting and stopping at a car park en route but left when he saw she was ringing her parents after telling him she didn’t want sex following his alleged attempts to ‘force her’.
