Saints' Crowl 'racially abused and attacked in Spain'

Chantelle Crowl was portion of the St Helens broadside to triumph a Challenge Cup, League leaders' trophy and Super League rubric successful 2021

England guardant Chantelle Crowl says she was racially abused and physically assaulted by unit astatine a Spanish hotel.

Crowl said she was "repeatedly hit" by a unit subordinate aft radical slurs were made by edifice workers.

"I was successful that overmuch daze I did not cognize what to bash oregon who to look for," she told BBC Sport.

The Mossos d'Esquadra - the Catalan determination constabulary unit - said they had "responded to the petition of Ms Crowl astatine the edifice and went to the incident, but nary of the affected parties wanted to marque a report".

The Blue Sea Montevista Hawai edifice said they were "aware of the incidental and were awaiting immoderate constabulary and judicial proceedings, if necessary, portion collaborating to clarify the facts".

They besides added that 1 of their unit members had to be infirmary pursuing the incidental connected Saturday, 3 June.

Since her instrumentality to England, Crowl, who says she struggled "to devour for 3 days" owed to bruising astir her jaw, has been forced to miss Saints' Super League triumph implicit section rivals Wigan and Sunday's Challenge Cup quarter-final triumph implicit Warrington owed to concussion protocols.

Crowl, who appeared for England astatine the women's Rugby League World Cup successful Australia successful 2017, said things escalated aft she went to the beforehand table to kick astir radical slurs made by a lifeguard connected the archetypal time of an intended four-day break.

She added: "At the excavation the lifeguard was making racist remarks and was truly assertive towards maine and was telling my woman that she needed to archer her person to 'shut up' and this and that.

"I got a spot upset and we went to marque a ailment and the woman connected the table seemed sympathetic and was penning the details down. The manager came retired from down his table and ripped it up and shouted 'get out' utilizing the aforesaid radical slurs.

"I started to grounds him connected my telephone and helium ripped it from retired of my manus and gripped my look wherever I person 2 claw marks."

Crowl sent the BBC respective images of injuries which she says she suffered successful the attack

Crowl, who was an integral portion of the Saints broadside to triumph a Challenge Cup, League leaders' trophy and Super League rubric successful 2021, claims things got worse arsenic they tried to permission the hotel.

"We got each of our luggage and everything unneurotic and connected the mode retired of the hotel, the manager was stood with a handyman oregon electrician of the edifice that goes and fixes problems.

"They followed america out. I had a weird feeling but we were conscionable trying to get retired of determination and erstwhile we got to by the roadside helium [the handyman] conscionable turned astir and punched maine successful the face.

"He tried to instrumentality my suitcase truthful my woman had to grip onto it. He broke the [metal] barroom disconnected the suitcase and past repeatedly deed maine successful the look with it. He deed besides maine successful the backmost arsenic I tried to screen myself.

"Some of the Spanish radical astir connected the street... witnesses got successful his look and were shouting 'no, no' and helium ran off. It is dreadful to unrecorded through."

Crowl says that erstwhile she attended the constabulary presumption successful Lloret de Mar, she felt determination was small meaningful assistance offered from the authorities.

"They didn't get maine checked retired medically oregon thing similar that. They were keen to get maine to not property charges successful immoderate benignant of mode by scaring maine that I wouldn't beryllium capable get home.

"They brought a translator and fundamentally told me, you marque nary connection and helium makes nary statement, oregon you person to enactment longer and can't permission connected your formation connected Wednesday and I'd person to spell backmost to Spain for court.

"The constabulary besides said due to the fact that the edifice manager had indicated that he'd wounded his limb oregon digit erstwhile helium grabbed and threw my phone, that if we were to marque a connection helium could bash the aforesaid astir that and we wouldn't beryllium capable to leave.

"It was a no-win situation. There was nary assistance and we conscionable felt truthful alone."

The Catalan determination constabulary unit rejected suggestions that they had not offered Crowl immoderate help.