A 28-year-old businessman has been arrested for allegedly intoxicating and abusing a 32-year-old German woman at a hotel in Kollupitiya.
The 32-year-old German woman is due to be presented to a doctor and receive a report. Police investigations have revealed that the suspect businessman has been a friend of the German girl for about six years.
Police say that the father of the German girl is a former naval officer who is a Sri Lankan and the mother is a German woman. She arrived in Sri Lanka on December 18 and stayed at a relative’s house in Tangalle.
It was also reported that the woman had been staying with a businessman in a hotel in the Kandy area for about two weeks.
The girl, who was scheduled to leave the country on the 6th, had arrived at a hotel in the Kollupitiya area on the 4th with the businessman and the two had gone to a nightclub that day and stayed there until 4 the next morning.
Police investigations have revealed that she had consumed vodka and the youth had also consumed alcohol.
The girl’s credit card was lost and the suspect businessman had an argument between the two over not taking it into account, police said, adding that the girl had returned to the hotel in the Kollupitiya area where she was staying a wagon.
The girl had felt some discomfort after arriving at the hotel and unknowingly identified her on examination that she had been raped.
She suspects that she was raped after mixing with something to drink vodka while staying at the hotel.
The girl is to be presented to a doctor and reported to testify about the rape. .
Her complaint further states that when she woke up, she had only her underwear and the other clothes were in the bathroom.
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