Horror in Ibiza as Brit ‘suffers 25-minute sex attack while getting a tattoo’

An tattoo artist allegedly sexually abused a British holidaymaker after she asked him to ink a butterfly on her left hip on a night out in Ibiza. The 50-year-old “took advantage” of the fact she wasn’t wearing underwear to put his fingers inside her in an assault said to have lasted 25 minutes.

The alleged victim was left unable to react out of  “fear and anguish” according to Spanish public prosecutors and only alerted police in Scotland when she returned home.

A court in Majorca will try the man charged over the late-night June 15 2022 incident at an Ibiza tattoo parlour at a court in the Majorcan capital Palma on Tuesday.

The alleged sex offender, believed to be an Argentinian-born Spaniard who was already known to police, has not been named ahead of his trial where three professional judges rather than a jury will decide his fate.

Public prosecutors say they want him jailed for six years if he is convicted of sexually abusing the tourist, 21 at the time, and ordered to pay her €15,000 (£13,200).

They also want him barred from working as a tattoo artist for eight years and are seeking a 10-year restraint order preventing him from going within 200 metres of his victim if he is found guilty.

It is not yet clear if his female accuser will give evidence via video link or will fly to Majorca to testify in person.

The body artist about to be put on trial was arrested on August 11 2022 and remanded in prison shortly afterwards by an investigating magistrate who subsequently decided to charge him.

The alleged sex assault occurred at a tattoo parlour in San Jose, a municipality in the south-west of Ibiza which includes areas like the party resort of Playa d’en Bossa as well as peaceful fishing villages.

Cops released photos of uniformed officers putting him into a police car after his arrest.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard, the force that made the arrest, said at the time: “The Civil Guard through its Unit of Investigation of Sex Crimes in Ibiza, has arrested a man aged 47 on suspicion of a crime of sexual assault.

“The arrest took place on August 11 2022.

“The victim, a British woman who was on holiday in Ibiza, reported the incident to police in Scotland where she lives normally who passed her information on to the Civil Guard.

“Investigators discovered the arrested man had previous for incidents of a similar nature and allegedly committed the sexual crimes in a tattoo parlour in San Jose, where the alleged victims hired his services.

“He allegedly molested the women by touching them without their permission while he was doing their tattoo.

“Ibiza Court of Instruction Number One has remanded him in prison.”

A police source said: “She alerted police in Scotland when she returned home and they passed the information on to police in Spain to investigate.”

Going into further details about the suspect’s past, the well-placed source said at the time: “He has already been accused of sexual abuse and sexual assault on five previous occasions.”

The insider was not able to confirm whether the previous cases had resulted in court convictions and the other incidents are not thought to have been mentioned in the pre-trial indictment drafted before this week’s public hearing.

Although the tattoo parlour is in the municipality of San Jose, which locals speaking in Catalan call Sant Josep de Sa Talaia, it is in a beach area very near to the party resort of San Antonio which is popular with young British tourists.