Irish wife, 37, who groped Swedish 18-year-old in Magaluf hotel sauna while on holiday with her husband is hit with £2,300 fine

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Irish wife, 37, who groped Swedish 18-year-old in Magaluf hotel sauna while on holiday with her husband is hit with £2,300 fine​

By GERARD COUZENS

Published: 07:44 BST, 24 June 2026 | Updated: 12:32 BST, 24 June 2026

An Irish tourist has been hit with a fine after admitting to groping a man half her age in the sauna of a Magaluf hotel where she was holidaying with her husband.

The woman had been expected to protest her innocence after a preliminary hearing to see if a plea bargain deal could be thrashed out between her lawyer and a public prosecutor ended in stalemate.

But after insisting earlier this year she wanted her day in court to clear her name, the 38-year-old entered an unexpected guilty plea yesterday on the day scheduled for her trial.

She had been warned she could face an 18-month prison sentence if convicted over the June 3, 2025 sex assault.

But after her U-turn and last-minute decision to agree to a plea bargain deal, public prosecutors said they were happy for the matter to be resolved with a financial penalty.

The woman agreed to pay a fine of 2,700 euros (£2,325) and 500 euros (£430) in compensation to her victim, a Swedish tourist aged 18 when she touched his genitals without his consent in a Turkish steam bath.

She entered her guilty plea at a short hearing yesterday at the Audiencia Provincial Court in the Majorcan capital Palma via video link and was not required to travel to the island to appear in person.

The woman spent a night in a police cell last summer before an investigating magistrate released her on bail and said she was free to travel back home pending an ongoing criminal probe.

The indictment outlining the prosecution version of events said she sat beside the Swedish teenager when she went to the hotel's Turkish steam bath and 'with a lustful spirit, taking advantage of the fact that no one else was there and against his will, put her hands on his genitals and fondled them until he said "no, no, no" and left.'

They had moved to the Turkish steam bath from the sauna where they are understood to have engaged in some small talk.

'She does not accept she committed a crime on the basis that what occurred was a simple misunderstanding.'

 

[Timerty]

Who started the conversation first must tell

 

[bobby]

She can grope me and I will even pay

 

[syed putra]

The world upside down. Normally it's the vikings who do the groping on Celtics in the British isles.

 

[syed putra]

Irish grope swede in Turkish bath in Majorca Spain. You cannot get more European than that

 

[cow138]

Equal opportunity.