ISSUE NO. 1609
5 - 11 May 2016
MALLORCA
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
A broken dream By Matthew Elliott A hint of forthcoming tragedies over the course of a long hot summer was unfortunately provided by the death of a young British woman in Magaluf on Monday evening. Samantha Johnson, aged just 24, was found drowned in her bathtub by desperate hotel staff who tried to resuscitate her after witnessing water seeping under the door. Preliminary investigations have suggested that she fell unconscious due to excessive alcohol intake at the three-star TRH Torrenova hotel in Mallorca’s infamous resort. A police spokeswoman said “The forensic department carried out a post-mortem on Tuesday morning and determined that it was an accidental death through drowning. She had a lot of alcohol in her system and may have fallen asleep while taking a bath,” adding “hotel staff were alerted when water appeared under the door and when no-one answered they entered the room to find the woman in the bath with the tap still running. The hypothesis is that she passed out and then drowned.” There has been speculation
that Ms Johnson and her partner had an argument on the Sunday evening after which he flew back to the United Kingdom and she spoke with a receptionist about the situation. Staff are understood, however, to be under instructions not to divulge any further in-
formation. Her partner is reported to have been informed of her death, while the Foreign Office has released a statement indicating that they are “providing support to the family of a British national following their death in Mallorca on May 2, 2016” and that they
are in “close contact with local authorities.” The resort, hugely popular with young British partygoers, has seen a spate of alcohol-related deaths in recent years but has undergone a concerted effort to rebrand itself as a more family orientated destination.
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