A 59-year-old British woman has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a Costa del Sol holiday resort.
She is said to have approached the youngster as she sat on a beach and spoken to her in English to ‘gain her trust’ before groping her.
The teenager, an Italian national, ran to a nearby shop to seek help where a relative was working and called police.
Cops held the Brit, who reportedly has previous for other sex offences, in the same area.
The incident happened earlier this month in La Cala de Mijas near Fuengirola but only came to light today.
The arrest was made by local police but officers from another police force, the Civil Guard, took her to court.
It was not immediately clear this morning if the unnamed British woman is a holidaymaker or expat and whether she has been remanded in custody pending an ongoing investigation or released on bail.
Local councillor Juan Carlos Cuevas described her behaviour as ‘repugnant and intolerable’ and added even though she has not yet been formally charged with any crime: ‘It deserves the strongest condemnation.’
Saying the co-operation of locals and the rapid intervention of local police employed by Mijas Town Hall had played a key part in the arrest, he said: ‘This case shows that when we work together, we manage to halt very serious situations.’
Earlier this month the same local police force announced it had captured a fugitive Brit wanted for murder.
The unnamed man was arrested after a run-in with two women at a petrol station and a subsequent car crash.
Police released photos of pistols, ammunition and a silencer seized in his vehicle after the suspect, described locally as having links with ‘one of London’s most dangerous crime gangs’, tried to flee and they held him and ‘discovered he should be in prison.’
The pics showed the unnamed Brit was also carrying a book called ‘Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self.’
The arrest was made in an area called Riviera between La Cala de Mijas and Marbella. Respected local paper Sur said he was wanted for ‘several assassinations’ and reported the argument he had at the petrol station was with two Dutch women he started berating after trying repeatedly to get them to buy him cocaine.
Bizarrely it later emerged the man held was not the person local police thought he was. He was remanded in custody while Spanish police sought help from detectives in the UK to confirm his true identity.