Girls suing school after being raped on South American trip 'drank rum and played spin the bottle with attacker'

Two schoolgirls savagely raped on a school trip to Belize drank rum and played 'spin the bottle' with their attacker after he used his 'laddish' charm to get into their hut, a court has heard.

The 'large and frightening' man spent up to three hours in the jungle shack occupied by the 15- and 16-year-old girls before the candle was blown out and he attacked them, a High Court judge was told.

The two women, who are now in their 20s, say they will never get over the trauma of being raped during the 'character-building' trip to Central America with their Kent school in 2005.

Mr Justice Mackay said: 'It is the claimants’ case that he barged in. Certainly, once inside, he plays them and starts off being nice.


'There’s a bit of drinking, a bit of spin-the-bottle. Plainly they were all taking pains to keep the noise down.'       Read Full