Two Brits 'seriously injured' after being 'assaulted by bouncer' in attack at holiday hotspot

A doorman has been arrested in the Majorcan party resort of Magaluf after allegedly assaulting two British tourists he left “seriously injured.”

Both holidaymakers needed stitches for head wounds after being taken to hospital. One is believed to have received blows to the head and face while internal injuries haven't been ruled out, and the other is said to have come close to suffering permanent eye damage resulting in a partial loss of vision. The arrest was made after Civil Guard officers interviewed witnesses.

Two colleagues of the man held have been formally identified, but not arrested, after being questioned by police.
Investigators are now searching for CCTV footage to see if the incident was filmed. The nightspot where the assault happened has not been named and police have yet to make any official comment.

In July last year two bouncers were arrested of beating up three people including a woman they had previously expelled from a popular Magaluf nightspot. One of the doormen, accused of punching one of the assault victims and then leaving him unconscious after kicking him in the head while he lay on the ground, was remanded in custody after appearing before a judge.

The same bouncer, placed under investigation on a suspected attempted murder charge, was also accused of punching the injured man’s female friend when she tried to intervene. Earlier this month a British tourist was seriously injured in a fall at a Magaluf apartment block.

The unnamed man was rushed to hospital with "very serious" injuries including face and head wounds in the early hours of April 6. It was initially reported he had plunged from the third-floor of an apartment block near Magaluf's party strip Punta Ballena known as the Maria Elena building. It subsequently emerged he had ended up in the complex after getting in through an unfixed hole in a fence separating it from a pedestrian walkway and falling as he walked along a wall with a sheer drop of around 15 feet below it.