‘I couldn’t be happier’: British model, 25, breaks down in tears of joy as Moroccan waiter who raped and left her for dead is jailed for 23 years

A British model who was raped and left for dead by a waiter on the holiday island of Majorca today said she ‘couldn’t be happier’ after he was jailed for 23 years.

Morroccan Mohamed Fadel el Anssari, 31, tried to strangle Cheryl Maddison before stabbing her repeatedly in a prolonged attack in a flat in Magaluf in 2008. The model, now 25, only survived the ordeal because she pretended to be dead.

El Anssari was today sentenced to 11 years for the sex attack and a further 12 years for trying to kill her.

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