Delay for Leicester players facing Spanish sex case
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Your support makes all the difference.Three Leicester City players facing charges of sexually assaulting three women in Spain will not learn their fate for at least a month, their lawyer said yesterday, after media reports claimed the case against Paul Dickov, Keith Gillespie and Frank Sinclair would be dropped today.
The three accusers, who say they were attacked in a hotel in La Manga, were prostitutes, the News of the World reported, saying that one of them, Ruth Lorenco, 36, offered an undercover reporter sex with her and the two other women, Beatrice Wanjiro, 31, and Martha Wilbert, 37, for £700.
The players' lawyer, Ana Ruiperez, said the next stage would come when the results of forensic science tests were returned from Madrid. These had been delayed because of investigations into the terrorist bombings in the capital in March.
In a statement, a Leicester City spokesman, Paul Mace, said: "We have every confidence in the Spanish judicial system and that justice will be seen to be done."
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