Benidorm police save British woman from jumping off her hotel balcony after assaulting her partner
The Brit was then arrested after she was saved by the officers from plunging to the ground from the sixth floor
Six policemen from Spain’s National Police service in Benidorm have saved the life of a woman who was attempting to jump from her sixth-floor balcony after having attacked her partner. Both women are of British nationality and the event occurred on Friday January 10, at 5.50am in a hotel in the Rincón de Loix area.It was during the early hours of the morning when 091 received a call from the hotel reporting that a 49-year-old woman had been attacked a few hours earlier by her partner, a 44-year-old woman. When the police arrived on the scene they noticed a woman covered in blood at the reception desk. The woman then explained that she had been the victim of an assault.
The victim then stated that “she argued with her girlfriend, who is in the room, she attacked her by throwing punches, she took her mobile phone and tried to throw her off the terrace”.
Luckily, the victim escaped and ran down to the reception where the police found her. According to the victim the other woman was “was out of her mind” and had “thrown a chair, her passport and also her mobile phone out of the window”.
After obtaining the information from the woman the police officers then went to the indicated room where they knocked on the door without receiving any response. Then, after getting a key from reception, they tried to open the door but the room was locked from the inside.
The police then decided to knock on the adjoining room, which was opened by other English tourists who let them into the terrace, from where they were able to check the interior of the room where the alleged attacker was.
The room was dark and so the police shone their torches into the room and saw that the attacker was sitting outside. The police then asked her “to open the door to speak” so that the police could get to the bottom of what happened.
The woman did not respond and instead stood up and, without saying anything, walked to the railing, moved one leg and then the other towards the outside of the railing of the balcony. The police continued to try to contact the woman, but they were unsuccessful and she did not respond to them.
Then one of the policemen returned to the door of the woman’s room and kicked it open. The woman was found hanging from the railings of the balcony. The police then managed to get hold of her arms while she was hanging from the balcony above a six-floor drop to the ground.
In the end, it took three officers to hold the woman for several minutes as her body was hanging over the drop, but they couldn’t pull her up and return her to the terrace.
It was only when three more officers managed to enter the room on the floor below that they were able to grab her feet and pull her inwards so that she fell on top of the officers on the terrace. The British woman then stated that she “wanted to die and that they should have let her fall into the void”.
After the police took a statement from the victim, the woman who had attempeted to commit suicide was then arrested on charges of domestic abuse, but was first taken to the Comarcal Hospital of the Marina Baixa to “be assessed by the psychiatric unit”, according to the police report.
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