British woman wins appeal against gang rape lie conviction

Cyprus` Supreme Court overturned a conviction against a British woman who was accused of lying about being gang-raped in 2019.

The Court on Monday examined an appeal submitted by her lawyers last September. The woman, now 21 years of age, had been handed a suspended four-month prison sentence in January 2020, after being found guilty of public mischief for reporting she was raped in the popular Ayia Napa resort on the southeast coast of the island, in 2019.

Source: Cyprus News Agency