Brits in Magaluf assault cocktail waitress and inform her ‘suck my ****’ in horror glassing

Tommy Witty and Alexander Anderson were convicted of wounding after a horror glassing at a Mallorca cocktail bar left three victims needing stitches. They were sentenced

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Two British tourists accused of attacking three people including a female cocktail bar worker in this horrific glassing caught on CCTV have been found guilty of wounding.

Tommy Colm Witty, 24, and Alexander Lee Anderson, 33, had been cautioned they could face up to 10 years behind bars each if found guilty as charged before their trial in the Majorcan capital Palma. However, the duo ultimately accepted a last-minute plea bargain agreement over the incident at Iroko Mallorca, an upmarket restaurant and cocktail bar in Palmanova near Magaluf.

Witty, who had been detained on remand in prison since the early-hours assault on June 22 last year, was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and Anderson got away with a EUROS 720 (£620) fine.

A four-page indictment issued by public prosecutors before Friday’s hearing at the Provincial Court of Palma said Witty, Anderson and two other “unidentified people” became violent after the woman worker refused to serve them more drinks.

The indictment stated: “They told her in an aggressive tone: “S*** my d***” and touched their private parts, with a row starting in which both the accused, with the intention of undermining her physical integrity, pushed her and she fell to the floor and hit her head on the ground and received cuts to her leg with broken glass.”

A male colleague who stepped in was struck on the back of the head with a glass. A second man thought to be another patron sustained neck and hand injuries after an attempt to hurl a glass at him resulted in it shattering as he raised his arm to shield his face, according to the indictment.

CCTV footage released at the time revealed the brutal attack in the crowded bar restaurant, with Witty identified as the individual behind the glass assault.

All three victims required medical attention for their injuries and needed stitches, with the two staff members forced to take time off work. The two Britons also agreed to pay the trio a four-figure compensation settlement as part of the plea bargain arrangement.

The lenient sentences they received were determined based on their guilty pleas and the fact they had handed over money to the court before the hearing so their victims could be properly compensated.

The holidaymakers were initially arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide over the violent 2am confrontation before being charged with three counts of wounding.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard said after they were detained last year: “Two people aged 24 and 33 have been arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide, wounding and causing serious public disorder following an incident at a nightspot in Palmanova.

“Officers sent to Majorca as part of summer reinforcements were carrying out routine security patrols when they were alerted a mass fight was occurring in a premises near to where they were. They saw a man covered in blood who was brandishing a broken bottle who was attacking others present. They quickly reduced him and got the broken bottle off him.

“Staff said he, his companion and two others who had fled the scene had attacked employees and two strangers. The officers requested medical backup so they could assist the three people who had been hurt.

“Given the depth of their wounds and the fact they affected vital areas, they were transferred to Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital Palma where they were given stitches to open wounds in their neck, head, arms and legs. The blood-covered man, who was the 24-year-old, was arrested along with his 33-year-old companion.”

The incident occurred days after initial footage surfaced of a Magaluf doorman flooring another British tourist with a barrage of punches after responding to being bottled in a separate incident.

CCTV footage captured the Lithuanian bouncer erupting and using his fists to defend himself in the crowded nightspot before bringing his hand to his bloodied face and neck.

The 34-year-old was left with a gaping wound requiring 20 stitches according to public prosecutors, though local reports put the number of stitches at 50.

Prosecutors subsequently demanded a five-year prison sentence for Max Barnes, 25, who was detained on an international arrest warrant after being bailed and going AWOL following the attack. The Brit, who was 19 at the time of the incident which occurred in the early hours of July 31, 2019, claimed after his arrest by Civil Guard officers that he had acted in self-defence following a previous assault.

However, in June of the following year, he received an 18-month suspended prison sentence after admitting to the unprovoked attack at The Plaza bar, located at the end of Magaluf’s lively Punta Ballena strip, as part of a plea bargain deal.

Barnes, who had already compensated his victim nearly £35,000, confessed his guilt during a trial where he briefly spoke via videoconference.

In November 2023, a British soldier prosecuted over a glass attack on her holiday friend in a Magaluf nightclub avoided jail and was instead fined £780.

Sydney Cole, a bus driver’s daughter, was arrested when her friend, Scots-born Lance Corporal Sarah Garrity, ended up in intensive care after losing four pints of blood and requiring 14 stitches for a neck wound.

Initially, she was warned that she could face three years in prison after being charged with a crime of wounding by Spanish state prosecutors, despite her victim’s refusal to press charges.

Cole, who was serving in the Adjutant General’s Corps based at Fort George Barracks in Inverness at the time of the horrific incident on April 15 2019, managed to avoid jail after confessing to injuring Sarah as part of a plea bargain deal.

Sarah, originally from Irvine, Ayrshire, was serving in the Royal Logistics Corps when she sustained critical injuries. Her statement to police and court officials, stating that she did not wish to press charges, led to the early release of Cole from prison just days after her arrest and preventative remand in custody.

Despite this, prosecutors chose to continue building a case against the accused woman. This decision came after witnesses informed police that the attacker had thrown a glass directly at Sarah’s neck during an altercation at Magaluf’s Banana’s nightclub, following a day-long drinking session.

Initially, after her arrest, Cole maintained that her holiday friend had been injured in an accident. She claimed that she had thrown the glass on the floor during their fight, and shards from it had struck Sarah in the neck. However, she later changed her story as part of a plea bargain deal.

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