Sunday People

I heard a bang, leaned out and saw that she had gone

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the city’s main strip, home to dozens of British pubs and clubs.

Bar owners said they had not seen Kirsty as she was one of hundreds of girls on hen do’s who had passed through on bar crawls that Friday evening. One said: “Groups like this come along this road having one or two drinks in each of the pubs.

“By the end of the night they’ll have been to 15 different bars.

“Most don’t make it through the night in one piece before they have to try to get back to their hotels.

“We open at midday, just as they’re waking up again to start drinking and get over hangovers.” We saw live sex shows brazenly advertised to drinkers inkers stumbling from barr to bar, while drugs wereere sold openly in thee street.

One disgusted drinker said: “It’s a scary place. In no way is it family friendly. It’ss disgracefu­l and poolice need to sort it out.” ut.”

Another said: “Soon after about 9pm things start getting pretty nasty.

“We have seen fights break out over nothing – there are girls lying paralytic in the street.

“I’m surprised more people aren’t seriously hurt. I don’t know how some of these people are able to get back to their hotels after all they’ve had.”

Critics say cheap booze has turned the area into a pit of depravity as tour tourists flock in to drink dangerou dangerous quantities. LaL a s t November Dan Danielle Hall, 21, from N Newcastle upon Tyne,T died after falling 80ft from a ninth floor balcony at Bermudas a apartments in B Benidorm, where sh she was staying with bo boyfriend Jordan Beva Bevan, 23. In OctoberOc 2013, rugby player Alan Clare, 34, from Warrington, died after plunging 50ft at Los Dalmatas hotel in Benidorm. He is thought to have slipped as he tried to climb into his fifth floor room during a stag do. His body was found on a first-floor terrace. Locals say drugs are an increasing problem. Cops who pulled over a man’s car last summer found 13grammes of suspected cocaine.

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