Briton targeted by Costa del Sol serial sex attacker - warning as 3 threatened with murder
POLICE on the Costa del Sol are hunting a violent serial sex attacker whose victims include a British woman.
The white van driver put a screwdriver to her neck to intimidate her before paralysing her with fear by telling her she would not be the first person he had killed if she resisted.
After forcing her to perform sex acts he left in the van.
The offender targeted the woman, said to be 19, as she got into her car to drive home after leaving work in the holiday resort of Fuengirola.
He ordered her to take her trousers down but fled before sexually assaulting her after hearing noise
Sources close to the case said he attacked her after getting into the back seat of the car and threatening her with the screwdriver as she turned the engine on.
The terrifying crime happened around 4am on Thursday in a central street called Maestra Angeles Azpiazu Street.
Police have linked the attack to two others over the past month which have also taken place in Fuengirola because the modus operandi and the descriptions the victims gave of the man who targeted them were identical.
A Spanish woman was targeted just under a month ago by a man who produced a screwdriver and threatened to kill her after following her into an apartment block and getting into a lift with her.
He ordered her to take her trousers down but fled before sexually assaulting her after hearing noise.
The second attack happened around 7am last Sunday when a second Spanish woman was walking home after a night out.
She was approached by a pervert who pulled his trousers down and tried to get the youngster to fondle him while he rubbed himself against her.
He stopped as friends of hers walking behind saw what was happening from a distance and began to shout at him - but the witnesses said that instead of running away he calmly walked to a white van parked nearby and drove off.
The attacker, described as being around 5ft 7ins, dark-skinned and short-haired with an athletic build and a possible tattoo on one of his arms, never covers his face.
Police have yet to make any official comment, but are known to be linking the cases because of the white van the offender was seen using in two of the three attacks, the screwdriver and his physical description, as well as the fact all three incidents have happened in a short space of time in the same Costa holiday resort.