Her account bears striking similarities to the alleged treatment of a British teenager Online Cigarettes Store USA who was convicted last week of lying about being gang-raped by Israeli tourists in the resort town of Ayia Napa. She made the initial complaint in July but 10 days later, after being questioned without a lawyer for eight hours in a police station, signed a retraction statement. She faces sentencing on Tuesday and could be jailed for up to a year and fined 1,700 euro (£1,500) at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni.
The 19-year-old British woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the trial that officers threatened to arrest her and her friends unless she retracted the claims of being gang raped by a group of young Israeli men.
After reading about the Ayia Napa case, the Scandinavian woman decided to come forward Newport Cigarettes Shop with her account of similar treatment at the hands of the Cypriot police 20 years ago.
It is the first time she has spoken publicly of the assault and has previously only discussed it with her doctor and her husband.
Now aged 43, she was 21 when she met the men in a nightclub in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, in January 1998.
They offered to give her a lift to her hotel. Instead, they raped her in a car park. “I fought for Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes my life and thought I was going to die,” she told The Telegraph.
She went to the nearest police station to report the rape and was taken to a hospital for an examination.
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