A BRITISH holidaymaker was battered to a pulp when she turned down a man for sex.
Emma Higginson, 35, suffered a fractured skull, eye socket and nose in the attack at her hotel and was left ‘barely recognisable’
She was left “barely recognisable” and her room’s sheets, walls and tiles were left covered in blood.
Police in Turkey have arrested Brit car salesman Declan Marshall, 27, in connection with the assault.
Speaking from her hospital bed in Marmaris, credit controller Emma — who has agreed to be named — told The Sun: “I want everyone to see what this man has done to me.
“My mum and sister could barely recognise me. I’m in so much pain.
Emma was left ‘barely recognisable’ after the horrific attack
Brit car salesman Declan Marshall, 27, has been arrested in connection with the assault
The bedsheets, walls and tiles of Emma’s room were left covered in blood
Emma’s injuries are too severe for her to travel home yet “I’m covered in bruises and I just want to go home but can’t as the doctors say my injuries are too bad to fly.
“One of my teeth fell out this morning and I’m going to need plastic surgery to get my face back to normal.
“The man who did this to me is an animal.
“He’s a complete nutter and should be locked up for a long time.”
Emma suffered a fractured skull, eye socket and nose in the attack
Emma said she is going to need plastic surgery on her face The attack happened last week on the last day of a break in Icmeler.
Emma, from Kent, was with pals when they met Marshall in a nightclub and they offered him the sofa to sleep on as he said he had no way to get home.
Emma said: “I went to my room and fell asleep but a few minutes later he was in my bed trying to have sex with me.
“I said I wasn’t interested.
Emma woke up on the apartment balcony covered in blood following the brutal attack “I remember him saying I had no respect but I said I had a boyfriend.
“Then he hit me twice and I blacked out.
“When I woke up I was on the balcony and there was blood everywhere.
“My friend woke up to me screaming and he ran out of the apartment.
“I remember him hitting me twice really hard before passing out.”
She added: “I’ve got 50 stitches, I can’t speak properly and I’m in so much pain.”
Marshall, from Stoke-on-Trent, was arrested in a nearby hotel after police used CCTV from the nightclub.
He is being held in custody and is due in court this week.
