British father, 43, is charged with raping his son’s female friend at a hotel in Magaluf

A British man has been accused of raping his son’s girlfriend at a hotel in Magaluf and faces up to nine years in prison if convicted.

The 43-year-old’s lawyers failed to reach a plea deal with prosecutors at a Mallorca court on Thursday.

The hearing in the island capital Palma ended with a trial date for February next year over the alleged sexual assault in May.

The suspect, who has not yet been named by police or court officials ahead of his trial, was detained at Palma airport after “packing his bags and trying to return to Britain for hours afterwards”.

The British woman, believed to be around 20 years old, told investigators she was forced to have sex after spending the last night of her holiday in the same room as her boyfriend and his father because she was due to travel to Britain hours later. return and… already checked out of her own room.

The older man, who has not yet been named, reportedly tried to flee Magaluf but was stopped by police at the airport

The older man allegedly surprised her in the middle of the night after he ‘took advantage’ of her drinking a large amount of alcohol and being fast asleep on a sofa bed, despite her then waking up and begging him to stop hold. .

According to reports, the father’s son was still partying at the time.

Police were alerted after fleeing the unnamed hotel and raising the alarm at a civil guard office near Magaluf’s Punta Ballena party strip in the early hours of May 9 this year.

Mallorcan daily Ultima Hora said officers took a statement from her before going to the hotel and discovered the man they were looking for had already checked out.

He was arrested at the gate of his flight after allegedly ending his vacation early by rescheduling his return days before he was originally scheduled to depart by purchasing a new ticket home.

An investigating judge ordered his remand in prison after he was taken to court for questioning during a closed hearing, during which the alleged victim gave her version of events.

He is believed to have been in jail since his arrest in May.

As well as a nine-year prison sentence if found guilty, prosecutors also want the accused rapist to be taken to court today to pay his alleged victim £8,700 in compensation if he is found guilty of the sexual offence.

The party resorts of Magaluf and S’Arenal, east of the island’s capital, have been rocked this summer by several alleged sexual attacks involving foreign tourists, including gang rapes.

The party resorts of Magaluf and S’Arenal have been rocked by a series of sexual abuse scandals

Five Frenchmen and a Swiss man were arrested for allegedly raping a British teenager in a hotel in Magaluf

Two more suspects were detained in France on a European arrest warrant for allegedly taking part in the gang rape

A British 18-year-old was allegedly raped in a hotel in Magaluf in the early hours of August 14.

Five French nationals and one Swiss national were arrested and remanded in custody pending an ongoing judicial investigation, while a further two suspects were subsequently detained in France on European arrest warrants.

Earlier this week it emerged that misbehaving British tourists could be banned from entering the Balearic Islands under controversial new proposals being studied by regional government leaders.

The island’s head of tourism, Jaume Bauza, confirmed on Monday that holidaymakers who break strict rules deployed to tackle anti-social visitors could be blacklisted.

In early 2020, a decree on drunken tourism was agreed for certain areas such as Magaluf in Mallorca and the West End of San Antonio in neighboring Ibiza.

It included fines of up to £50,000 for holidaymakers caught jumping from their hotel balconies, and restrictions on the amount of alcohol served with meals at all-inclusive hotels.