Get you up to speed: 73-Year-Old British Woman Attacked, Assaulted and Robbed in Tenerife Flat
A 32-year-old man was sentenced to nine years for raping and beating a 73-year-old British woman in her Arona apartment in May 2018.
Following the trial, the court ordered the attacker to pay £30,000 to the victim’s family and return the stolen jewellery.
Details of a 2018 sexual assault case in Arona, Tenerife, emerged as the attacker received a nine-year prison sentence and was ordered to pay £30,000 to the victim’s family.
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A 73-year-old British woman was brutally attacked in her apartment in the Canary Islands, leading to her death seven months later. The incident occurred in May 2018 when a 32-year-old man entered her home in the resort town of Arona, beat her, raped her, and robbed her of money, jewellery, and keys.
The attacker climbed over a 6 ft high wall before threatening the victim. The assault lasted two hours, after which she was hospitalised in Santa Cruz. Although the victim’s health deteriorated significantly following the attack, it took authorities two months to locate and arrest the perpetrator.
Recently sentenced to nine years in prison, the attacker was found guilty based on DNA evidence and CCTV footage. Additionally, he was ordered to pay £30,000 to the victim’s family and return the stolen jewellery. He had previously claimed he was innocent, asserting he was working on the island at the time of the incident and delaying the trial by failing to attend court, citing a lost passport.
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A 73-year-old British woman was beaten and raped in her apartment before she was robbed in the Canary Islands.
The attacker, 32, entered her home in the resort of Arona in Tenerife before launching the assault in May 2018.
He climbed over a 6 ft high wall before threatening the woman and stealing her money, jewellery and keys.
The assault lasted for two hours, and the victim was taken to hospital in Santa Cruz.
The victim died seven months after the attack in January 2019, while it took two months to find and arrest the attacker.
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Her daughter testified that her mum’s health deteriorated after the assault.
Although the attack happened nearly eight years ago, the details are only coming to light as the attacker is jailed.
He was handed a nine-year sentence after DNA analysis and CCTV proved he was at the scene.
The court heard the victim spent long periods in Tenerife to escape the UK’s weather.
The attacker claimed he had nothing to do with the attack, and was working on the island at the time.
He also delayed the trial by failing to show up in court, claiming he lost his passport so he could not travel.
He was ordered to pay £30,000 to the victim’s family and return the jewellery he stole.