Brit tycoon arrested over ‘rape of two women after they were lured to luxury hotel in Majorca'
A BRITISH former multi-millionaire tycoon has been arrested in Majorca on suspicion of raping two women at a luxury hotel.
The 55-year-old allegedly targeted the women on separate occasions at a five-star hotel in Portals Nous.
2
2
The Brit was detained on Wednesday after the second of the two women, a Ukrainian national, accused him of forcing himself on her.
She had flown to the island's capital Palma for an arranged meeting.
She made a formal complaint after being taken to hospital by police, alleging she had been raped at the weekend following the rendezvous.
The other woman, who is from South America, has claimed her attack took place at the start of the year.
Civil Guard officers have prepared a report for a court in Palma which is conducting an ongoing criminal probe after the man's police quiz.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
The Sun
10 minutes ago
- The Sun
Man, 92, who ‘raped and murdered pensioner' was ‘snared nearly 60 years later after billion to one DNA breakthrough'
A MAN accused of raping and murdering a pensioner was caught nearly 60 years later after a "billion to one" DNA breakthrough, a court heard. Ryland Headley allegedly broke into the Bristol home of Louisa Dunne, 75, in June 1967 before attacking her. 5 She was discovered by neighbours on a pile of clothes with multiple bruising. Headley, now aged 92, is now on trial 58 years later accused of rape and murder. Bristol Crown Court heard police at the time of the horror had attempted to match thousands of potential suspects with a palm print left on Louisa's window. But the case went cold for decades until Headley's DNA was found to be a match with semen found on the OAP's blue skirt, it was said. Jurors were also told Headley has two convictions for rape - including one from October 1977 when he broke into an 84-year-old's home and attacked her. Later that month, he raped a 79-year-old woman after also gaining entry to her home. Opening the case for the prosecution, Anna Vigars KC said: "We are talking about the murder of an elderly and vulnerable lady in her own home. "She was in no state to defend herself. Whether it happened 58 years ago or 58 days ago, the killing, the murder of any person, is, of course, a matter of concern to the rest of us. "The fact that time has passed doesn't make the killing of anyone, anyone of us any less significant. "The police have never given up on the task of solving the case of Mrs Dunne's murder." Twice-widowed Louisa was last seen by a friend on June 27, 1967, before heading home at around 7.30pm. The court heard a number of local women became concerned when they realised they had not seen Louisa all morning. Violet Allen and Hilda Stedman then went over and found the front door shut and the sash window near the front door open as far as possible. Ms Vigars said: ""They looked through the window and called for her through the letter box but got no response. "When she looked through the window, Violet Allen could see Mrs Dunne's legs by the side of the table so, with the help of two other women, she climbed in through the window and went over to her. "Violet Allen took hold of Mrs Dunne's hand and immediately realised that she was dead because her hand was ice cold." A post mortem found Louisa had cuts and bruising on her mouth which indicated "something firm" had been pressed against her lips, it was said. Swabs were taken from Louisa's body, which tested positive for semen, but scientific examinations at that time were limited. Jurors were told in 2003, the case was re-examined and police found the swabs matched Headley's DNA in a "billion to one" breakthrough. At the time of Louisa's death, he had been living around a mile-and-a-half from the OAP's home but fell outside the circle of houses were men were asked to provide handprint for the investigation. The prosecution said three different finger print experts had since eventually come to the conclusion the "palm print on the window was caused by Mr Headley's hand." Jurors were also told Headley carried out ten offences of burglary between 1973 and 1978 as well as the two rape convictions. Ms Vigars said: "We say that these offences demonstrate to all of us that Mr Headley has a tendency to act in exactly the same way that we say that he did back in 1967, in other words, to break into people's homes at night and, in some cases, to target an elderly woman living alone, to have sex with her despite her attempts to fend him off, and to threaten violence. "Behaviour that he had already used, we suggest, back in 1967 on Mrs Dunne, the difference being that in that case his violence killed her. "Back then, of course, he cut rather a different figure from the one that he cuts today. "The advantage of strength was all with him and these women, shocked to discover a stranger in their own homes, stood no chance to do anything other than plead unsuccessfully for him to stop." Headley, of Ipswich, Suffolk , denies rape and murder. The trial continues. 5 5 5
The Independent
28 minutes ago
- The Independent
92-year-old goes on trial accused of raping and murdering pensioner in 1967
An elderly widow was raped and murdered by a man who broke into her home in a crime which remained under investigation for more than 50 years, a court heard. Ryland Headley is accused of forcing entry into the home of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in Bristol in June 1967 before attacking her. Headley, now aged 92, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of raping and murdering Mrs Dunne. Jurors were told her body was found by neighbours inside her home on Britannia Road in the Easton area of the city on the morning of June 28 1967. Anna Vigars KC, prosecuting, told the court: 'A number of the local women were worried about Mrs Dunne because they hadn't seen her all morning and they also noticed that a sash window was open at the front of the house. 'The fact that she wasn't out on the doorstep was unusual for her. 'So, two of the local women, Violet Allen and Hilda Stedman, then went over and found the front door shut and the sash window near the front door open as far as possible. 'They looked through the window and called for her through the letter box but got no response. 'When she looked through the window, Violet Allen could see Mrs Dunne's legs by the side of the table so, with the help of two other women, she climbed in through the window and went over to her. 'Violet Allen took hold of Mrs Dunne's hand and immediately realised that she was dead because her hand was ice cold.' Mrs Dunne, who was using the front room as a bedroom, was found lying on a pile of old clothes and police found no evidence of any violent struggle in the house. A post-mortem examination was carried out and the pathologist concluded Mrs Dunne died overnight between June 27 and 28. A neighbour, who had been out walking her dog, had seen her stood on her doorstep at about 10pm that evening, while others heard noises overnight. 'The pathologist's conclusion was that the abrasions, bruising and tearing of Mrs Dunne's lips indicated that something firm had been pressed against her mouth,' Mrs Vigars told the jury of eight men and four women. 'His opinion was that the most likely explanation is that a hand had been forcibly held over her mouth. 'And so far as the straight bruise across the back of her neck, he thought that that was caused by the scarf which had been found under her body having been violently tightened from the front. 'Having examined her body externally and internally, he said that there was no natural cause for her death.' Swabs were taken from Mrs Dunne's body, which tested positive for semen but scientific examinations at that time were limited. Mrs Vigars said police had also recovered a palm print from a window at Mrs Dunne's home and that was compared to thousands of men and boys in 1967, but none matched the suspect. 'All of the material that had been gathered in the investigation was boxed up and it was kept by the police,' the prosecutor said. 'There it all was, sealed away, awaiting, at some stage, a fresh look. 'The police have never given up on solving the case of Mrs Dunne's murder. From time to time, over the last 58 years the case has been re-examined. 'That involved, among other things, reviewing the material from the original investigation against the new and improving scientific techniques becoming available to the police. 'There was some limited work done on the case in 2009 and again in 2014 but there was nothing of substance that came out of that.' In 2023, the case was re-examined and DNA testing of the swabs matched Headley. 'By 2024, scientists were able to do what was impossible nearly 60 years earlier and examine the semen for DNA,' Mrs Vigars said. 'The semen matched Mr Headley's DNA with a match ratio that meant it was a billion times more likely to be Mr Headley's DNA than that of someone else.' The court heard that at the time of the murder, Headley was living with his wife around a mile-and-a-half from Mrs Dunne and left Bristol fairly shortly after. His palm print was not compared to the print of the 1967 suspect until he was arrested in November last year. 'When his palm prints were compared with the prints from the window in Britannia Road, the fingerprint experts employed by the police came to the conclusion that the palm print on the window was caused by Mr Headley's hand,' Mrs Vigars said. 'In response to all of this, we understand that Mr Headley's position is simply that he has no recollection of ever having had visited Mrs Dunne's home, or of having sexual intercourse with Mrs Dunne, that he certainly did not rape her, and that he did not kill her.' The jury was told Headley had been jailed for the rape of two elderly women in 1977 whose homes he had broken into – threatening them with violence if they did not comply. He also asked for a further 10 offences of overnight burglaries of homes where his fingerprints had also been found to be taken into account when he was sentenced, which took place between 1973 and 1978. 'We say that these offences demonstrate to all of us that Mr Headley has a tendency to act in exactly the same way that we say that he did back in 1967, in other words, to break into people's homes at night and, in some cases, to target an elderly woman living alone, to have sex with her despite her attempts to fend him off, and to threaten violence,' Mrs Vigars said. 'Behaviour that he had already used, we suggest, back in 1967 on Mrs Dunne, the difference being that in that case his violence killed her. 'Back then, of course, he cut rather a different figure from the one that he cuts today. 'The advantage of strength was all with him and these women, shocked to discover a stranger in their own homes, stood no chance to do anything other than plead unsuccessfully for him to stop.' Headley, of Clarence Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, is accused of the rape and murder of Ms Dunne on dates between June 26 and 29. He denies both charges. The trial continues.
The Sun
30 minutes ago
- The Sun
Ethnicity of child sex abuse suspects will be logged after truth about Asian grooming gangs was ‘dodged for YEARS'
AUTHORITIES will be forced to track the ethnicity of grooming predators after years deliberately covering up the "over-representation" of Asian rape gangs. A damning report into the scandal lays bare catastrophic failings of the British state to stop the abuse of white girls - and calls for a national inquiry to 'draw a line in the sand'. 2 2 Sir Keir Starmer has accepted Baroness Louise Casey's recommendations for the probe after previously batting away such demands as a 'far-right bandwagon'. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told MPs today the government will also accept the other demands - including mandatory rape charges for any adult who penetrates a child. She also issued an apology to the victims on behalf of the British state for "failing to to keep your safe". In her three-month rapid audit, Baroness Casey laments how 'questions about ethnicity have been dodged for years'. She says that there have 'been enough convictions across the country of groups of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds to have warranted closer examination.' 'Instead of examination, we have seen obfuscation. In a vacuum, incomplete and unreliable data is used to suit the ends of those presenting it. 'The system claims there is an overwhelming problem with White perpetrators when that can't be proved. 'This does no one any favours at all, and least of all those in the Asian, Pakistani or Muslim communities who needlessly suffer as those with malicious intent use this obfuscation to sow and spread hatred.' As The Sun first revealed last week, her report also links illegal migration with the grooming scandal. ABUSER CRACKDOWN Baroness Casey's audit sets out 12 urgent recommendations to tackle the scandal of child grooming - which the Home Secretary says the government will accept in full. The report calls for the law to be tightened so that any adult who has sex with a child under the age of 16 is automatically charged with rape, removing current legal grey areas that allow abusers to avoid proper punishment. Grooming gang crackdown unveiled BARONESS Casey's report sets out a series of recommendations, which the government has accepted in full 1. Strengthen the law: Tighten the law so that any adult who has sex with a child under the age of 16 is automatically charged with rape, removing current legal grey areas that allow abusers to avoid proper punishment. 2. Address Historical Failings: Through a national inquiry pursue justice for past cases and hold accountable those who failed to act. 3. Enhance Intelligence Gathering: Improve the collection and analysis of information to combat exploitation more effectively. 4. Improve Inter-Agency Collaboration: Foster stronger cooperation and information-sharing among agencies. 5. Mandatory Reporting: Require all services to share information when a child is at risk. 6. Introduce Unique Child Identifiers: Implement a system to ensure children are consistently and accurately identified across services. 7. Modernise Police Systems: Upgrade technology to enable seamless communication and prevent missed opportunities. 8. Treat Grooming Gangs as Serious Organised Crime: Employ the same robust strategies used to combat other forms of organised criminal activity. 9. Investigate Declining Reports: The Department for Education must examine why reports of child abuse are decreasing and take corrective action. 10. Understand the Underlying Drivers: Conduct in-depth research into the factors underpinning grooming gangs, including cultural and online influences. 11. Regulate the Taxi Industry: Prevent exploitation by restricting the use of 'out-of-area' taxi drivers. 12. Commit Government Resources: Ministers must allocate funding and ensure measurable progress is achieved. It also recommends a national inquiry to bring more perpetrators to justice, including a fresh review of historic cases that were dropped or never fully investigated. Agencies such as police forces, local councils, and social care bodies must be held accountable for past failures, with support given to local inquiries and renewed scrutiny of previous statutory reviews. The audit stresses the importance of collecting more accurate and transparent data—particularly on the ethnicity of offenders—to fully understand and confront the patterns behind group-based exploitation. To improve prevention and response, it urges better information-sharing between police, children's services, and health providers, ensuring warning signs are spotted and acted upon swiftly. The report recommends treating child sexual exploitation with the same seriousness as major organised crime, using specialised investigation tactics and prioritising victim-centred approaches. It calls for an end to the harmful "adultification" of teenage girls, especially those in care, who are too often judged as complicit rather than recognised as vulnerable children. The government is also urged to close legal loopholes in taxi licensing that allow drivers to exploit inconsistent local regulation, often placing children at greater risk. Victims should be offered trauma counselling immediately and without legal delay, with their recovery treated as a priority alongside any criminal investigations. Finally, the audit calls for strong, coordinated national leadership and a long-term strategy to ensure group-based child sexual exploitation is properly addressed and never ignored again. KIDS STILL ABUSED Children across Britain are still being sexually abused in gangs and officials can't say how many. The scathing audit by Baroness Casey found there's 'no recent study' and 'incomplete data' across police, councils and the justice system, meaning the scale of abuse is unknown. In 2023, cops logged just 700 group-based exploitation crimes but the report warned this 'is highly unlikely to accurately reflect the true scale' The report also said 500,000 kids are likely to be sexually abused each year, yet most cases are never reported or recognised. On ethnicity, the report found two-thirds of perpetrators have no ethnicity recorded, making national data worthless. But in three police force areas, local records showed 'disproportionate numbers of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds', including Pakistani communities among suspects. Baroness Casey said the system has 'shied away' from the truth for year - allowing flawed data to mask patterns and leaving victims without answers. She warned this failure has 'done a disservice to victims' and to 'law-abiding people in Asian communities' alike.
