by Dan Bloom

A young woman who was brutally attacked on a hen weekend in Magaluf fears she may never get justice.

Shop worker Martyne Wheeler, 23, was beaten by a man who threw a pint glass of urine over her outside a bar in the Spanish resort.

The stranger punched and kicked her, breaking her nose, knocking out a tooth and fracturing her eye socket - all because she took one of his friend's hats.

Martyne, from Twydall, had brain scans and hospital treatment, but had to fly home the next day where she later received an artificial tooth.

She said: "This was the first time I'd ever been on a weekend like this and I can't believe it's ended this way.

"The attack only happened because I spotted the group and wanted to say sorry for taking their hat.

"I had to go to hospital and was off work for a month. I even had to have one of my teeth replaced - it was a terrible ordeal."

Now, two months on, language barriers and paperwork have prevented Martyne from finding out if justice was served.

The former Rainham School for Girls pupil has not talked about her ordeal before, but said a "frustrating" insurance letter made her come forward.

When she tried to make a legal claim over her injuries via her insurance company, Annual Travel Insurance, lawyers told her she would have to find out a crucial address - of her own attacker.

The letter from Penningtons Solicitors said: "In order to pursue your claim, you would need to find out the name and address of your assailant."

She said: "The last time I saw him was outside the court. I had to sit a foot away from him. He was sat there with the same shoes on and my blood on the end of them.

"For ages I have kept it all inside but now I feel frustrated. I have been onto the courts, the police and the British consulate but I can't get answers.

"I don't want anything to do with him. The whole ordeal has made me feel like it was my fault."

Miss Wheeler, of Lamberhurst Green, managed to find out the man's name but has not been able to discover if he faced trial.

If convicted of grievous bodily harm in the UK, a similar offender could be jailed for 18 months.

Miss Wheeler paid a £200 excess for legal advice, but was told any civil claim against the man was unlikely to succeed - partly because he would be unable to pay up.

She was the youngest of 13 friends, including her sister Tarah, 26, who dressed as army girls on the drinking strip in Mallorca, Spain, on June 19.
The attack forced her to take a month off work as a team leader at House of Fraser, Bluewater.

Lawyers said she would have had to miss six months of work before she was eligible for compensation.