The woman, who says she is innocent and will appeal the ruling, was found guilty of the charge of ‘public mischief,’ which carries a maximum fine of 1,700 euros and up to a year imprisonment
A British woman, centre, accused of falsely claiming she was raped by Israeli tourists, covers her face as she leaves the Famagusta District Court, in Paralimni, in eastern Cyprus, on Dec. 30, 2019.A Cyprus court on Monday found a 19 year-old British woman guilty of fabricating claims that she was gang raped by 12 Israelis in a hotel room at a tourist resort in the east Mediterranean island nation, saying that her story lacked credibility.
Emerging from the courthouse after the verdict, both the woman and her mother wore strips of fabric over their mouths onto which stitched lips were drawn. The judge said the defendant admitted to investigators under questioning that she had lied and apologized. He said she made up the claims because she was “ashamed” after finding out that some of the Israelis had videoed her having consensual sex with her Israeli boyfriend on their mobile phones. He said that the admission and her subsequent apology “was the only time the defendant told the truth.”
Judge Papathanasiou dismissed her testimony as being “exaggerated, confused, contradictory and incoherent.” Michael Polak with the group Justice Abroad, which also helped defend the British woman, said the appeal will be based on the premise that there was evidence indicating that the woman had been raped, but that the judge refused to consider it.Polak said the woman “is determined for justice to be done in her case as well as to help change the culture towards victims of sexual offences in Cyprus.”
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