UK woman cleared by Cyprus court of making up gang rape
A British woman who was accused of falsely claiming she was gang-raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists in a Cyprus holiday resort had her conviction overturned today by the country's Supreme Court.
Defence lawyers successfully argued there had been a miscarriage of justice when a district court found her guilty in January 2020 of public mischief, and handed her a suspended four-month jail term.
The woman, now aged 21 and not publicly identified, had told police in July 2019 that she had been raped by the Israelis, aged 15 to 22, in a hotel room in the Mediterranean island's party resort town of Ayia Napa.
Aged 19 at the time of her arrest, she was charged after she retracted her initial complaint, but later said she had been pressured to do so by local police in lengthy questioning without a lawyer or translator present.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/0131/1276929-cyprus-court-case/
