12 Aug, 2023 @ 19:02
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Prosecutors seek three year jail sentence for British soldier accused of slashing her fellow squaddie’s throat during Mallorca bar brawl

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SPANISH prosecutors are seeking a three-year prison sentence for a British soldier accused of slashing her fellow squaddie’s throat during a drunken bar fight in Mallorca.

Sydney Cole, 23, got into a scrap with her ‘best friend,’ Lance Corporal Sarah Garrity, 26, in Bananas nightclub on Magaluf’s Punta Ballena strip in 2019.

Ms Garrity, from Irvine, Ayrshire, was rushed to intensive care after losing four pints of blood during the incident, and required 14 stitches to her throat.

Cole was arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide, despite Ms Garrity insisting that she did not want to press charges.

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Sydney Cole (pictured), 23, got into a scrap with her ‘best friend,’ Lance Corporal Sarah Garrity, 26, in Bananas nightclub on Magaluf’s Punta Ballena strip in 2019.

Cole was detained in prison before being shortly released pending a further court appearance, which took place this week.

Cole, from London, told a judge in Palma in 2019 that a glass she threw on the floor broke and a shard pierced Garrity’s neck.

“It was an accident, Sarah and I were very drunk because we had been drinking since 11 on Monday morning but I didn’t want to cut her throat,” said Cole.

Suleiman, a worker in a nearby Kebab shop, told the Olive Press at the time: “It was horrific. There was blood everywhere. I could hardly bring myself to look. It was a huge gash, and quite a hole that wouldn’t stop bleeding.”

Cole was released by police after her friend decided not to press charges. Royal Logistics Corps clerk Garrity said: “I’m alive and that’s all that matters.”

But while the British Army investigated and decided not to take matters further – to the extent that the two soldiers reportedly went on parade together after the incident – the Spanish legal authorities have decided not to let the matter rest.

Cole will be questioned under oath before the Spanish court decides exactly what charges to indict her on, reports Ultima Hora.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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