Brit tourist, 21, ‘is raped by 47-year-old Greek man who met her in a health care shop before attacking her in a hotel’ on holiday island of Rhodes
- The woman says she was attacked at around 2am on Monday in Pefkos
- A day earlier, another British woman has said she was secretly drugged
A British tourist has accused a 47-year-old Greek man of raping her in a hotel while on holiday on the island of Rhodes, according to local media.
The 21-year-old says she was attacked at around 2am on Monday in Pefkos and made a complaint to the local police hours later, prompting a case to be opened.
According to Greece’s ANT1News, the young woman’s lawsuit claims the older man took her from a ‘health care store’ in Lindos, found on the south of the island, to a hotel in Pefkos – the main city on the island that sits around 15 miles from Turkey.
There, the outlet reports, the woman claims the man forced her to have sex with him through threats of physical violence.
Upon making her complaint, the police asked a medical examiner to carry out an assessment, ANT1News said.
Two young British women have said they were attacked in separate incidents within 24 hours on the Greek island of Rhodes (pictured, file photo), prompting police investigations
She has handed over the clothes she was wearing on the night which will be sent to Greece’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations for DNA testing.
According to the same publication, a second British woman made a complaint over an incident in Faliraki – seven miles south of Pefkos – 24 hours earlier.
It reports that the 18-year-old British tourist was attacked in the early hours on Sunday, July 2, at a nightclub in the popular destination.
She has told police she was at the club with two of her friends, when she suspects an unknown person injected her with a narcotic substance in her hand – without her realising that it had happened at the time.
From that moment, she says she suffered from complete memory loss, leading her to suspect that she was secretly injected with some form of drug.
As with the first case, a coroner’s examination has been ordered and police have launched an investigation into the alleged attack.
The news of the two complaints from the British women in Greece comes after the death of a pair of Irish teenagers over the same weekend on a different island.
Two 18-year-old classmates, Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall, died on the Greek island of Ios while on holiday with around 20 more of their fellow graduates.
O’Donnell is believed to have fallen and hit his head while walking home along some cliffs to his hotel in the early hours of Saturday morning after a night out in Hora, the capital of Ios. O’Donnell’s body was found on Sunday morning, and news of his death later that day caused his friend Wall to collapse from shock.
Greek investigators are now probing whether the boys had their drinks spiked.
The boys’ devastated parents have travelled to Greece to bring home their remains, while their traumatised classmates are returning to Ireland via Bristol on Tuesday.
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