Eight men, who were due to stand trial today over the Magaluf hotel gang rape of a British teenage tourist, have admitted wrongdoing in eleventh-hour plea deals with prosecutors.

The group were facing prison sentences totalling more than 150 years if convicted as charged over the sex crimes and vile videos they filmed - which investigators said were the “most repugnant” they have ever seen.

Prosecutors were seeking jail sentences of between 18 and 20 years for each of the accused, public prosecutors said in a pre-trial indictment.

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The court documents laid bare the sickening and degrading treatment the 18-year-old holidaymaker at the hands of the accused, seven French nationals and one from Switzerland.

Today it was confirmed the men had agreed to plead guilty in exchange for reduced prison sentences, on the first morning of what was due to be a four-day public hearing over the August 14 2023 crime. Their guilty pleas mean they will see reduced prison sentences totalling just over 73 years.

The five who penetrated their victim accepted jail terms of nine or 11 years for sexual assault with three of those men receiving the higher prison sentences because they repeated their crimes.

They were also sentenced to another two years and three months for filming the sex attacks on the Brit youngster.

They are expected to be deported to their home countries once they have served part of their time behind bars, although the decision on exactly how long they stay in prison will be decided sometime next month.

The men could be kicked out of Spain after doing around six or seven years’ jail time, according to well-placed sources, although public prosecutors are expected to try to convince judges who will have the final say that they should serve their full sentences.

The three men who didn’t penetrate the holidaymaker, but filmed the sex attacks committed by the others, were handed prison sentences of two years and three months.

One of the trio received an additional four-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting the holidaymaker without penetrating her as part of the plea bargain deal confirmed in court today.

The three had been granted bail ahead of today's planned trial, which had been pencilled in for four days at the Audiencia Provincial Court in the Majorcan capital Palma.

The British teenager had previously been told she did not need to appear in person or via videoconference at the men’s trial, with the witness statement which she had already given under oath deemed sufficient.

She is understood to have admitted to cops she had no real recollection of the multiple sex attacks she was subjected to because she was barely conscious after drinking heavily.

Both the public prosecutor and the holidaymaker’s lawyer had to agree to the punishments meted out to the men who targeted her as part of their plea bargain deals.

The sickening footage recorded by the men, who came from different groups and didn’t all know each other before they targeted their victim, proved key in their arrests and subsequent successful prosecution.

One well-placed insider said today: “They came from about four different groups. The room where the sexual assaults took place was occupied by two friends but they didn’t know the others involved.

“It was almost a case of them opening the door and inviting others passing by in the corridor to join in. If the men hadn’t filmed what they’d done they could have got off scot-free.”

Another said: “If they hadn’t put their hands up to wrongdoing as part of plea bargain deals and decided to go to full trial, many of these men could have spent the rest of their lives in prison.

“Some have never agreed to answer questions or give statements. These men appear on the surface to be regular young guys who don’t come from broken families and have never tried to allege they were acting out of character by trying to link what they did to the abuse of alcohol or drugs. It's such a shocking case."

Two of the suspects, charged following a lengthy probe by an investigating magistrate, were held abroad on a European Arrest Warrant and extradited. Six were detained in Majorca.

Some of the harrowing details about the actions of the men accused over the sickening crimes against the 18-year-old tourist, committed from around 7.30am on August 14 2023, had already emerged around the time they were charged.

Reports at the time said three of the suspects met the teenager hours earlier while partying in Magaluf and one had allegedly gone out into a hotel corridor after “sexually attacking” her to encourage strangers returning from their own night out to have “free sex” with her.

The 14-page indictment laying out the public prosecution case against the suspects confirmed many aspects of those reports and others pointing to their humiliating treatment of the Brit tourist, saying six of the suspects went to the room where one of them was staying and met another two men including a roommate who were already inside with the teenager.

It said: “There, the accused men, during approximately half an hour, aware of the semi-conscious state the young woman was in and at one point seeing she had fallen in a state of unconsciousness, and taking advantage of the closed room she had been taken into, stripped her naked leaving her with only her bra on.

“They then carried out different sexual acts on her, acting by common consent and without her consent.”

Saying she was raped in all manner of ways, and spat on, as well as being 'hit and smacked on her bottom', the indictment went on to detail how the British woman was surrounded by the “libidinous” gang as they shouted insults at her while they perpetrated their sex crimes.

The pre-trial prosecution indictment went on to say: “The accused men, each one with a mobile phone, throughout the actions previously described, recorded several videos focusing on the young woman’s private parts in which they appeared forcing her to to carry out sexual acts.”

It went on to accuse two of the men of sending the recordings from their phones and sharing them on Snapchat in boasts about their actions while their victim was still “semi-unconscious or unconscious.” One of the suspects was accused of filming 14 videos lasting 170 seconds, and another of filming five videos lasting 142 seconds.

The eight men were in their late teens and early twenties when they were arrested. The charges laid as part of the criminal investigation included five counts of rape involving two or more men simultaneously and “particularly degrading and humiliating intimidation and violence”, one count of sexual assault without penetration, and mistreatment and privacy crimes relating to the publication of the mobile phone videos.

The men were identified in the public prosecution indictment as primary authors of rape or accomplices who knowingly, voluntarily and with common intent united with the principal offender in the commission of the sex crime.

After the incident involving the British teenager, the BH Mallorca Resort said it was cooperating fully with the authorities and offered its support to the unnamed holidaymaker.

A spokesman said in a statement at the time: “The BH Mallorca Resort deeply regrets what has happened and would like to manifest its firm and forceful repudiation of the alleged sexual attack that occurred in the early hours of Monday August 14 at the hotel.

“The hotel also wants to demonstrate its solidarity with the alleged victim of this aggression. We are co-operating fully with the Civil Guard and its investigators in everything they consider to be necessary.

“This hotel ratifies through this statement its commitment to the condemnation of all types of sexual attacks that affect peoples’ dignity and physical integrity. Behaviour that undermines those rights has no place in this establishment.”

The Civil Guard in Majorca said in a statement after the last of the eight arrests: “The Civil Guard has closed the investigation sparked by the alleged gang rape that took place in a hotel in Magaluf in the early hours of August 14 2023.”

“Officers saw early on the complexity of the investigation, as the alleged aggressors didn’t form part of the same group of friends but encouraged by other participants, had allegedly joined the group action in sporadic acts, meaning no type of relationship existed between them.”

Confirming the first six suspects had been held the day of the sex attack and remanded in prison, a force spokesman added: “The probe continued to identify the two young men whose arrests were pending.

“One they had been identified, officers discovered they had taken a flight to Baden-Baden in Germany so they could head to their homes in the Strasbourg area.

“The Civil Guard sought the assistance of the French authorities through the normal channels and issued European Arrest Warrants to avoid them evading justice.

“On Sunday August 20 2023 the French police confirmed they arrested one of them in the French locality of Scherwiller before subsequently confirming a second arrest at Basilea Mulhouse Freiburg Airport in France, when that suspect was trying to take a flight to Turkey to avoid detention.”

A security guard at the hotel where the incident occurred came to the rescue of the British teenager after finding her sobbing on the floor in the lobby. He had just come in for his morning shift and described the police response at the time as very quick and efficient.

Bruises were found on the tourist’s arm during a medical examination which were believed to have been caused by her sex attackers holding her down. She also suffered a cut to her chest.

As well as doing prison time, the eight men convicted will have to compensate their victim with more than €100,000.