A model leapt to her death from her rented holiday flat rather than be raped by an estate agent and his friend, it has been reported.
University
student Gulay Bursali, 20, jumped naked from the Istanbul apartment she
was staying in with her boyfriend, identified only as Engin O, to
escape the home invasion sex attack.
The young couple had asked a
property agent if there was an empty apartment they could rent for the
weekend, and were given the keys to a property in Basaksehir, a district
located on the European side of Istanbul.
But after partying
with friends in a local bar, they had gone back to the flat where they
ended up being attacked by the estate agent.
According to the
boyfriend’s statement to police, the estate agent had tricked his way
inside by claiming he wanted to get some things from the apartment.
Gulay Bursali was a model and university student
Once inside, the estate agent and a friend beat him up, took his phone and locked him inside one of the rooms.
They
then locked the young woman in another room, and stripped her naked
before she had managed to open the window and climb outside, threatening
to jump unless they let her go.
Eyewitnesses said they had seen the naked young woman hanging out of the window.
One
man told local TV: "I heard somebody screaming help, and I thought
maybe it was just someone messing around. Then I saw naked girl hanging
out of the window.
The building the 20-year-old jumped from
"She was yelling don't pull me inside, if you try to pull me
inside I will jump. Those inside were shouting at her to come inside,
saying they were going to call the police.
"But she wasn't
interested, I heard her threaten them two more times to say that she
would jump, and was calling for somebody to help.
"I didn't say
anything, I felt if she moved even a bit she was going to fall and that
was why didn't say anything. I just called the police. While I was doing
that, she jumped."
The boyfriend who was freed from the flat and
quizzed has now been released and police are looking for the estate
agent and his friend.
