British mum calls cops after sexual assault by monkeys

A British mother has filed sexual assault charges in Gibraltar against two monkeys after accusing them of assaulting her.

Melissa Hart, 23 from Macclesfield said she was attacked by the monkeys after visiting the Rock on a day trip from Marbella.

Ms Hart, who was wearing a bikini at the time said she had approached the monkeys, when two of them began to pull at her clothes and her hair.

She said that they pawed her in her most intimate areas and then pulled her bikini top off.

Instead of helping, she explained that the other tourists stood around laughing and did nothing to try and stop the attack.

In an interview published by Olive Press, she explained: "I was being sexually assaulted and these people all thought it was a great joke".

Her screams did however attract the attention of a warden, who managed to wrestle the animals from her. After her ordeal, she then went to make a complaint with the police.

However, the police then explained to her that animals cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions.

It is not the first time that a tourist has been attacked by Barbary Macaques monkeys. 

Last year, Stuart Gravenell, 53, had his arm savaged by one of the creatures after going to see them with his son.

The monkey was over three foot tall and had gone to latch his jaws onto him as he walked through a nature reserve.

According to doctors in Gibraltar, it was one of the worst injuries they had ever seen.

The man was left with a pronounced loss of feeling in his arm.