Another Ayia Napa rape horror as beast convicted of attacking Brit waitress, 20, after offering her lift home
A PREDATORY sex beast has been found guilty of raping a frightened and crying 20-year-old British woman in Ayia Napa after giving her drugs.
The man, who has not been named in reports, was found guilty of savagely attacking the waitress in the Cypriot resort at Larnaca-Famagusta Criminal Court.
Ayia Napa hosts thousands of party loving Brits every year but the resort has been blighted by murder, rapes and organised crime.
In the latest horror attack, the victim told the court that after finishing her shift in a bar in the resort on June 26 at about 3am she was walking home when the defendant suddenly appeared.
She said she spoke to him as she recognised him from the area, and he had offered to find laughing gas for them.
The woman, who was working in the resort for the summer season, said she then got into his car as she felt safe, but she “never intended, sought to or expected to have sex with the defendant”.
The court heard the man pulled out a bag of cannabis as they were driving and stopped twice to buy balloons to fill with laughing gas.
But the victim then realised she was being driven far from her home and sent her location in a message to her friend as she began to worry.
The man stopped the car near the town of Sotira, with the victim saying she was frightened as they were in a dark and remote location.
She had reluctantly agreed to smoke the cannabis, saying as she did not want to annoy him, and had told him repeatedly that she wanted to go home, but the court heard that the man then grabbed her and threw her against a railing.
He ignored the fact that she had then started to cry, the court heard. She said she did not know how to act if the defendant had decided to harm her, and he had then raped her despite her repeatedly shouting that she just wanted to go home.
She was crying and her hair was messy, and she didn’t speak for a long time
Friend of the victim
The defendant then dropped the woman off near her flat, and in a state of shock she rang the bell, with one of her flatmates saying she was “very upset, she was crying and her hair was messy, and she didn’t speak for a long time”.
After she reported the case the defendant was arrested but claimed the woman had engaged in consensual sex with him.
The court found his testimony was unreliable and he will be sentenced on May 25.
The rape of the British woman lays bare Ayia Napa’s seedy underbelly.
Since the once sleepy fishing village became popular with Brits in the early 2000s, the authorities have been trying to clean it up.
But as well as the fun, there has also been a number of disturbing incidents over the years.
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In July last year 12 young Israeli tourists were arrested in connection with the rape of a 19-year-old British holidaymaker.
The case made headlines around the world and sparked anger in Israel after the men, who denied wrong-doing, were cleared and allowed to fly home.
Meanwhile cops accused the woman of lying and she was forced to spend six months in Cyprus where she was eventually convicted of inventing the rape and given a suspended jail sentence.
Friends of the British teen who claimed she was raped by a group of Israelis in Ayia Napa have recalled how they found her "crying hysterically surrounded by men".
The anonymous teen's pals are speaking out in the documentary Believe Me, which aired on ITV in April.
The teen has now filed an appeal to try and get her conviction overturned.
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In another incident a woman from Blackburn was left facing a permanent disability after being ruthlessly beaten and raped as she waited for a friend outside a nightclub.
She was found partly clothed, bruised and battered in a field after being sexually assaulted and beaten with a sharp wooden implement.
The attack came as the resort started to gain popularity among young Brits.
In 2012 British soldier, Sam Trussler, 25 was jailed for four years for raping a British university student in Ayia Napa.
Last year, an Irish holidaymaker was allegedly duped into following a man into a dark alley where he was then beaten up and gang raped.
The 20-year-old claimed he had been enjoying a night out in the resort when he was lured by his attacker by the promise of buying tickets for a late bar.
It’s not only young Brits involved in sex crimes in Ayia Napa.
In 2014, Patrik Ivarsson, 23, was jailed in 2015 for seven years raping a fellow Swedish tourist.
The Foreign Office urges women to be vigilant and warns of the possible use of “the possible use of ‘date rape’ and other drugs including ‘GHB’ and liquid ecstasy”.
