Malta Independent

Olivia Neumann’s version of events

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It was 16 September in the early morning. After much of fun and a few drinks, I lost my friend Nik around 3am near Paceville. Back in the club Plush I started looking after the others from our group, but I couldn’t find them. So around 3.20am I decided to go home also because I neither was carrying my phone nor cash. While taking the stairs I was thinking about asking someone to give me a lift, just female drivers of course. Downstairs I found a white taxi by the street with the driver inside. I got closer to the car so that I could see the person in it. Although there was no light in the car I saw a man with light hair and deep clothes, kind of dark green, not too young, rather big and bit chubby. I asked if he would drive me home and wait till I got the cash there, so I could pay him. He responded just with a ‘yes’ and asked where I live. After I got into the car and we were driving for few minutes, suddenly he grabbed my hand and forced me to touch his genitals. Shocked, I took my hand back on my knees and he began driving very fast. Then it came clearly to my mind; I had to get out of this car immediatel­y and automatica­lly I grabbed the door handle, but it was locked. The craziest things came to my mind. Then I wrapped my shirt around my elbow and started to hit the windowpane while screaming at him that I am going to break it if he didn’t stop. He answered ‘okay, okay’ and stopped. I jumped out of the car and just ran.

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