A BRITISH soldier accused of glassing her army pal in the neck in a Magaluf nightclub is free to return to the UK after the victim said she won’t press charges. Sydney Cole, 19, was given the good news this afternoon at Palma prison where she has been held for the past two days. She […]
A BRITISH soldier accused of glassing her army pal in the neck in a Magaluf nightclub is free to return to the UK after the victim said she won’t press charges.
Sydney Cole, 19, was given the good news this afternoon at Palma prison where she has been held for the past two days.
She is due to leave around 9pm tonight once paperwork has been completed and has not been banned from travelling so is expected to head home.
The probe is continuing against her fellow soldier Sarah Garrity told court officials she did not want to press charges.
No conditions have been placed on her release and she has not had to post bail, but she is believed to have been told she must make herself available to the judge in the future.
It was not clear this evening if she would be allowed to return to work at the barracks in Scotland where she is based.
Sarah, who suffered a horrific injury to her throat after being cut by glass, is still at Son Espases Hospital in the Majorcan capital Palma.
She was on holiday with Londoner Cole, who is believed to be in the Adjutant General Corps, and another woman called Deborah Ferguson who is also thought to be a soldier.
Sarah was treated at the scene of the incident – Bananas nightclub at the top of the Magaluf strip – after losing a large amount of blood when her throat was cut.
She reportedly needed 14 stitches to close a cut on her neck caused by the glass.
Cole has insisted she did not throw a glass directly at Sarah during a fight and her friend was hurt after it broke on the floor, but two witnesses have told police she did aim the glass at her pal.
We told earlier how Sarah believes she owes her life to a hero rugby player who raced to stop the blood gushing from her wounded neck.
The soldier, from Irvine, Ayrshire but now living in Middlesborough, is in the Royal Logistics Corps.
