Brit tourist, 36, ‘raped by social media friend in hotel room – before worker molested her in lift as she fled’ in India
A BRITISH tourist has allegedly been raped by a man she met on social media before being molested by a hotel worker as she tried to escape.
The 36-year-old woman from London had arrived in India on Friday for a holiday in Goa before heading to capital Dehli, local police said.
She had befriended a man, 25, on Instagram and agreed to meet him in Goa during her trip.
The man, however, allegedly asked her to come to Delhi instead.
After arriving in the city on Tuesday, she checked into a hotel in Mahipalpur, near the international airport, and called the social media pal.
The pair allegedly drank and had dinner before heading to her room, where the man reportedly forced himself on her.
She protested and ran to the reception to raise the alarm, but a hotel staff member allegedly touched her inappropriately when taking her to the lift.
A senior police officer confirmed the details, telling The Sun: “The men were not friends.
“After she was [allegedly] raped in the room, she came to reception. She was in an inebriated state.
“The accused man followed her to the reception. She almost fell down and he escorted her back to the room.
“The other person, a hotel staff, helped him to take her to the lift area but while he was helping her, he also [allegedly] inappropriately touched her.”
The woman reported the incident to police the next morning from a local hospital and both men were arrested.
The friend has been arrested on rape charges, while the hotel worker was arrested on molestation charges, the cop added.
The British High Commission has been informed.
A Foreign Office spokesperson told The Sun: “We are supporting a British woman in India and are in touch with the local authorities.”
It comes after a tourist and her travel host were gang-raped while stargazing in a horror attack in southern India.
The sick attackers also killed one of the pair’s male friends by hurling him into a canal while two other men with them survived.
Cops have said two suspects have been arrested over the sex attack and the killing – while a third remains at large.
Both women – the Israeli tourist and her Indian hostess – are continuing to recover in hospital after the assault last Thursday.
Meanwhile, in Thailand, two Brit pensioners who were battered by neighbours in a brutal driveway row were found guilty of assault — despite CCTV proving they were the ones attacked.
Middlesbrough couple Des and Mary Byrne dodged jail in a dramatic courtroom showdown on Wednesday but were still convicted of assault and causing damage.
The Sun told how the couple’s retirement to Thailand turned into a “horror beyond their worst nightmare” with no means of escaping “bent justice”.
During the brutal attack, Des, 77, was battered to the floor and hit 22 times to the head.
Former NHS palliative care nurse Mary, 69, suffered a broken nose, bleeding on her brain, and irregular heartbeat when they were set upon during a bitter planning dispute.