Eight men have been jailed after a British teenager was filmed being gang-raped at a hotel inMagaluf. The men admitted wrongdoing in eleventh-hour plea deals with prosecutors today, reducing their total jail time from more than 150 years to just over 73 for the "repugnant" crimes. Public prosecutors initially said they were seeking sentences of between 18 and 20 years for each of the accused, seven French nationals and one fromSweden, as they laid bare the sickening and degrading treatment the 18-year-old was subjected to in room 108 of the BH Mallorca Resort on August 14, 2023.
On the first morning of what was due to be a four-day public hearing at the Audiencia Provincial Court in Palma, however, it was confirmed that the men had agreed to plead guilty in exchange for reduced sentences. The five men who penetrated their victim accepted jail terms of nine to 11 years for sexual assault, with three receiving the higher prison sentences because they repeated their crimes. The three men who didn't penetrate the holidaymaker but filmed the sex attacks committed by others were handed prison sentences of two years and three months.
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The men are expected to be deported to their home countries once they have served part of their time behind bars, although the decision on exactly how long they stay in prison will be decided sometime next month.
Well-placed sources said they believed they could be kicked out of Spain after doing six or seven years' jail time, though public prosecutors could try to convince judges that they should serve their full sentences.
One of the trio received an additional four-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting the holidaymaker without penetrating her as part of the plea bargain confirmed in court today. The three were the only ones granted bail around nine months before the start of today's trial.
The British teenager, whose defence lawyer Irene Hernandez works for respected Spanish law firm Campaner Law, was previously told that she didn't need to appear in person or via video conference at the men's trial, with the witness statement she had already given under oath during the judicial investigation deemed sufficient.
She is understood to have admitted to cops that she had no real recollection of the multiple sex attacks she was subjected to because she was barely conscious after drinking heavily.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
