Gang-rape victim, 25, to be euthanised after father's legal challenge fails

A paraplegic gang-rape victim said she will wear her "prettiest dress" and hopes to "finally rest" when she is euthanised today.

Warning: This article contains distressing content. Noelia Castillo Ramos, 25, said she was raped on two occasions, once by her ex-boyfriend and the second time by three boys in 2022, describing this as a turning point in her life.

She jumped from the fifth-floor window of an apartment building in a cocaine-fuelled attempt to end her own life in October 2022 after previously overdosing on medication, according to legal rulings. The fall left her paraplegic, and she is suffering severe, chronic and incapacitating pain with no possibility of improvement, her medical reports show.

Noelia, from Barcelona, Spain, will be euthanised today after a long legal battle with her father, which ended with a ruling in her favour from the European Court of Human Rights. "I want to go now in peace and stop suffering, period," Noelia told Spanish TV programme Y Ahora Sonsoles in her only interview, recorded at her maternal grandmother's house.

Noelia, who is living in a Barcelona care home, said she has been "very clear" about her wish to die from the beginning. "None of my family is in favour of euthanasia.

But what about all the pain I've suffered during all these years," she said. "The happiness of a father, a mother, or a sister cannot be more important than the life of a daughter." She said she "always felt alone" and "saw my world as very dark.