1 Jul, 2020 @ 14:59
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Police launch manhunt after British woman raped in Spain

Lloret De Mar

SPANISH police are hunting a man who allegedly raped a 21-year-old British woman.

The victim reported she was attacked in the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar.

Lloret De Mar
ATTACK: Woman was raped in Lloret de Mar

Local media reports say the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was attacked in a park in the popular holiday destination.

The incident happened at about 4 am on Monday after she was followed after a night out with friends.

Local reports say the rapist sexually harassed the woman as he followed her before attacking her in the unidentified park.

It is understood she initially called the emergency services but panicked and left before help arrived.

She reported the attack to police in the nearby town of Blanes later in the day.

Spanish media have described the woman as English.

Investigators are looking through footage from CCTV cameras in the area and have been given a description of the man they are hunting.

The regional Mossos d’Esquadra police force was unavailable for comment.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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