RAPED TOURIST IN BABY TEST ORDEAL
Glasgow woman needed paternity check after holiday sex attack
A PREGNANT tourist from Glasgow who was raped by an electrician at a luxury hotel in Sri Lanka had to be tested to make sure the baby was her husband’s.
The woman, in her 30s, discovered she was carrying a baby on her return home.
She was on holiday with her husband when she was attacked by a uniformed hotel employee.
A TOURIST from Glasgow who was raped by an electrician at a luxury hotel in Sri Lanka had to get checked after realising she was pregnant.
The woman, in her 30s, discovered she was pregnant on her return and had to be tested to make sure the baby was her husband’s.
She was on holiday with her husband at the Bentota Hotel when she was attacked by the uniformed hotel employee.
She described how the man lured her into an engineering room in the hotel’s grounds and held her by the throat.
The woman was diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease after her return.
She sued tour giants, Kuoni Travel Ltd, through which she booked the 2010 package tour.
But now senior judges in London have ruled that neither Kuoni nor the hotel could be blamed for the electrician’s crime.
The Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton, said the attacker was of previous good character and no similar complaints had been made against him.
The hotel had taken up his references before employing him and neither Club Bentota nor Kuoni could have predicted the sex attack.
Neither of them “could have foreseen or forestalled” what he did to the tourist after offering to show her a short cut to the hotel’s reception.
Claiming £29,000 damages on her behalf, the woman’s lawyers argued Kuoni should be held liable under package tour regulations.
Sir Terence said: “Although we have great sympathy for Mrs X in relation to her ordeal...we would dismiss this appeal.”