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Daily Mail
a day ago
- Daily Mail
British father, 62, dies 'while go-karting with his children in Spain'
A British father has died while reportedly go-karting with his children in Spain. The 62-year-old is said to have gone into cardiac arrest while he was with his two children at a track near the town of Ciutadella in Menorca. He and his children had been visiting the outdoors go-kart track, Castillo Menorca, on Sunday, which describes itself as the holiday island's largest of its kind. But at around 3pm, the man is believed to have gone into cardiac arrest while his wife remined in the villa the family were staying in, located in Cala En Porter in the south of the island. Paramedics scrambled to the scene of the incident and attempted to revive him for over an hour. But tragically, they were unable to save him. It was not immediately clear if the British man lived on the island or if he was holidaying there, and police are yet to make any comment. A post-mortem is expected to take place tomorrow. It comes after a British father-of-one died in front of his father and friends while celebrating his stag do in Benidorm after he collapsed at a bar in March. The groom-to-be, 29, from Halifax, was enjoying drinks at the Funky Flamingo bar when tragedy struck, sparking a major response from emergency services. Bar manager Gaston Luciano told MailOnline in April how the Briton fell backwards off a bar stool and hit his head. And last month, CCTV footage emerged showing the final moments of a British father-of-four who plunged to his death from a Benidorm cliff in 2023. The video showed devoted father Nathan Osman, 30 - who was holidaying in Benidorm with friends - walking steadily along the Spanish resort's famed seafront just hours before he was found dead at the bottom of a 500ft cliff. Spanish authorities ruled Nathan's death was an accident or that he had possibly taken his own life - but his family immediately suspected foul play. His brother and sister turned detective to trawl through CCTV evidence, gather witness statements and access phone and bank records in a bid to force police to reopen the probe. In their search, they managed to find footage of Nathan at 4.08am walking alone along the party resort's promenade 'looking fine' before he was found hours later at the bottom of a cliff.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
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- Daily Mail
British father's six-year rape ordeal finally ends as he is cleared of attacking US teen in Greece and his lawyer reveals devastating effect the false claim had on his life
A British father has been cleared of raping an American teenager outside the bar he worked at in Greece in a six-year-long legal battle that lost him his wife. The 35-year-old DJ had been clashing with a 19-year-old teen in court since 2019 after she said he assaulted her while she was 'blind' drunk in Crete. The father-of-six insisted they had consensual sex - which a court in Heraklion believed today due to doubt over the girl's statement. The young woman was noticeably absent from court as well as any legal representation on her behalf, which the defendant's lawyer, Costas Papamastorakis, speculated was due to her realising her travel insurance did not cover the fallout from sexual assault. When she was first questioned by Hersonissos Police Department, she allegedly told them that she was insured for rape. But it later became clear that the woman's travel insurance would not cover the rape case, it was reported in Law&Order. Mr Papamastorakis reportedly said 'the insurance company's lack of coverage was likely the reason why the complainant did not appear'. The young woman claimed at the time she had been raped and forcibly dragged out of a bar in Malia to an uncovered area by a burly, dark-skinned man. The Brit, who had been working as a DJ at the same bar, said they had consensual sex inside after he met the young woman who was partying with her friends. When they then went outside, the girl vomited from being drunk and he suggested she drink some water or to sit on a sidewalk before going back into the bar, he claimed. Later that night, he heard while eating food with friends that a young woman had been raped at the bar. The Brit, then 29, handed himself over to the police, believing they would inevitably question him. The court's decision to spare the British father was a huge win, Mr Papamastorakis said, whose client's life fell apart since the allegation, including the mother of his six children divorcing him. It comes only months after another Brit was facing a nightmare court battle over assault in Greece. A young woman who was gang raped by two men while on holiday in Crete was forced to return to Greece for a second trial in March, despite her two attackers previously receiving life sentences for their horrific crimes. The woman, who had just turned 18 at the time of the assault in June 2022, had been holidaying with friends in the city of Rethymno after finishing her A-Levels. As she was sitting on a sunbed following a night out, she was grabbed and dragged away by two strangers, who then took it in turns to rape her. The men, understood to have been Pakistani nationals who were in their 20s at the time, were apprehended by Greek authorities a few hours after the horrific attack. They confessed to the gang-rape at the time of their arrest but then reportedly said the woman consented in their court appearance a year later. The young woman is said to have been forced to stand just metres away from her attackers as she gave evidence. The harrowing case ended with the men being jailed for life - or so the woman's family thought, as they looked forward to moving on from the ordeal. But shockingly, the men took advantage of a Greek law which allows defendants to lodge an appeal within a certain time frame, giving them an automatic right to a full retrial with a fresh examination of witnesses and evidence. The young woman had no choice but to return to Greece to be put through the horrific trial process all over again, with her mother saying the experience will likely re-traumatise her.
