7146073 'Sleep with me and my girlfriend or rape you': British backpacker's very indecent proposal after she accepted work in a filthy hostel to get her second year visa Frances Fairs
Frances Fairs had to flee the hostel where she was staying (Picture: Facebook)

A British backpacker says she had to flee the hostel where she was working after her boss threatened to rape her.

Frances Fairs had to work a specified amount of time for her visa to be valid for her to keep travelling around Australia.

She found work in a hostel which she said immediately didn’t seem right, as the reality looked nothing like pictures she had seen online.

Her room had bedbugs and the running water didn’t work properly in the kitchen, but she decided to stay on and try to make the best of it.

She finally realised she had to flee after her boss began acting inappropriately.

Frances told ABC: ‘The day before Christmas he put his hands on me and I told him very firmly ‘you get off me, don’t touch me’, and he was like ‘oh come on, you know you want to’.

She was staying in regional Victoria
She was staying in regional Victoria (Picture: Getty)

She told him firmly that she didn’t, and started looking for transport away from the hostel in Victoria, but buses were not running over the festival period.

Things then escalated, she said: ‘He called me into his office and was like “right here is the deal, you either sleep with me and my girlfriend or I rape you, pick one”,’ she said.

‘He said ‘I am going to come and pick you up tomorrow whether you like it or not and I have people that will come and grab you, you are not going to be able to resist this’ and I kicked him, I kicked him off me.’

She packed her bags, called a taxi and fled but didn’t have enough money for the bus to Melbourne.

Thankfully the first coach driver she spoke to agreed to let her travel even without the correct money, with Frances saying it was ‘like he had seen it before’.

She spoke out in concern at plans to extend the working holiday visa in Australia.

Currently, people aged 18-30 can live and travel in Australia for two years if they complete three months of qualifying farm work.

There are plans to extend the visa to three years with six months of farm work, to meet labour shortages.

Critics say the visa structure puts young people at risk of exploitation from employers, who know people have to keep on working to meet the conditions of their visa.

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