The rape allegedly occurred while the woman was staying at the hotel in Meta di Sorrento, a popular destination for British tourists south of Naples

Five men have been arrested on suspicion of drugging and gang raping a British woman in her fifties while they were employed as staff at a hotel in southern Italy.

The rape allegedly occurred while the woman was staying at the Mar Hotel Alimuri in Meta di Sorrento, a popular destination for British tourists south of Naples.

On the last night of their stay at the hotel in October 2016, the woman and her daughter were allegedly given drugged drinks by two barman at the hotel, who then took the dazed woman to a nearby swimming pool and sexually assaulted her, investigators said.

The woman was then handed over to another employee at the hotel, who took her to a bedroom at the hotel used