Who is Reeco Hackett-Fairchild? Charlton Athletic forward arrested in Ibiza over alleged sex attack
A 20-year-old footballer, along with two other men, have appeared in a court in Ibiza on sexual assault charges
REECO Hackett-Fairchild is an up-and-coming footballer for League One’s Charlton Athletic but has been arrested in Ibiza in connection with an alleged sex attack on the Spanish island along with two other men.
Hackett-Fairchild, 20, and the club’s Karlan Ahearne-Grant, also 20, along with another man, were arrested on Tuesday following an attack on a 19-year-old girl at a hotel in Cala de Bou, near the resort of San Antonio.
What has been claimed happened in the attack?
The alleged sex attack took place after the players partied at the Ocean Beach club in San Antonio, according to local paper Periodico de Ibiza.
The girl and a female friend met the footballers at a bar on Monday and agreed to go back to their Cala de Bou hotel with them.
She reported the alleged assault after her parents discovered what had happened.
The trio, who were on holiday in Ibiza, are being quizzed by an investigating magistrate behind closed doors.
The two players were released by a judge pending an ongoing criminal probe.
Hackett-Fairchild and an unnamed 26-year-old man have had their passports taken away from them.
Ahearne-Grant has been told he can leave the island but must sign on at the Spanish embassy in London on the 1st and 15th of every month.
He has been told he will continue to be investigated on suspicion of a privacy offence – but not a sex crime.
Reeco Hackett-Fairchild’s footballing career
Hackett-Fairchild was born in Redbridge, London in January 1998 and currently has made five appearances for Charlton Athletic.
The forward initially started in the youth sides of Fulham and Brighton & Hove Albion and joined the Academy side of Dagenham & Redbridge in 2014 on a two-year scholarship.
In March 2016 he went out on a youth loan to Dulwich Hamlet.
At the end of the season he did not gain a professional contract with the club and was released.
Hackett-Fairchild initially joined Norwich City and then Charlton Athletic on a six-week trial which then turned into a three-month contract and later extended until the end of the season.
His contract was then extended by another year and he made is professional debut for the club in August 2017, coming on as a sub for the 2-1 victory over Exeter City in hte EFL Cup.
Karlan Ahearne-Grant’s footballing career
Ahearne-Grant, born in Greenwich, south London in September 1997.
Less than a week after his 17th birthday in 2014 is signed a three-year contract with Charlton Athletic and made his professional debut shortly after, coming on as a sub against Norwich City.
He made his first starting line-up in October 2014 in the 1-0 defeat against AFC Bournemouth.
Ahearne-Grant has also represented England’s U17 side in February 2014, appearing in the Algarve tournament and was also called up later in the year for the U18 squad for the games against Poland.