Ayia Napa ‘rape lie’ Brit, 19, told she’ll spend Christmas in Cyprus as judge postpones verdict on ‘made up’ gang rape

A BRIT teenager accused of making up a gang rape claim will spend Christmas away from home after a Cypriot judge postponed her verdict for more than two weeks.

The 19-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons has put her uni career on hold over the farcical stop start trial which began in August.

She turned from victim to accused after cops said she made up the rape claim when she discovered footage of her having sex had been posted online.

Her defence team say a retraction statement from her was obtained after eight hours of overnight questioning from police while she was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.

Today closing arguments were made by the prosecution and defence with the judge stunning the girl’s family who were in court by saying he would return a verdict on December 30.

After the judge Michalis Papathanasiou announced the date of the verdict the girl shouted angrily at her legal team and the judge demanding an earlier ruling but he demanded she ”show some respect”.

FEARS FOR TEENS’ MENTAL HEALTH

Speaking from Famagusta district court where the trial is taking place her shocked mum EXCLUSIVELY told The Sun: “This I’d a joke. We were hoping to get a verdict and be home for Christmas.

“This farce of a trial has been going on since August and we were told the judge wanted to wrap it up by last week now we will be here until after Christmas.”

She added:”I am bitterly disappointed, outraged and distressed. Her consultant psychologist says she needs to get back to the UK extremely urgently in order to prevent her PTSD symptoms becoming permanent and untreatable, but the judge wouldn’t grant her bail home to the UK.

”She has been the victim of a violent attack an arrest which has violated her human rights she has been detained in Nicosia state prison, sharing an overcrowded cell with convicted criminals and now, although released on bail, she is still a prisoner in the gilded cage that is Cyprus.

”The full trial was scheduled to take five days. The days have been spread out between weeks and we are now on day 11.

“It is so expensive, exasperating and lonely, having to stay out here with no clear end in sight.

“We have been here since July, and are so disconnected from our family and friends.

“Being separated by thousands of miles at this time of year, when normally families get together is heartbreaking, not just for us, but for them too.”

She needs to get back to the UK extremely urgently in order to prevent her PTSD symptoms becoming permanent and untreatable, but the judge wouldn’t grant her bail home to the UK

Girl's mother

Cops charged the teenager with public mischief following the alleged attack at the party resort of Ayia Napa last July when a group of 12 Israelis burst into her hotel room.

Earlier in the trial defence forensic pathologist Dr Marios Matsakis, told the court he was adamant ”violence was exercised” and injuries on her body were “consistent with the rape having taken place”

In her closing argument defence lawyer Ritsa Pekri said the police investigation had been flawed and officers had been aggressive towards the girl.

She said:”Police committed important omissions and violations at the investigation stage”, not fully examining the Israeli men’s telephone data and not “putting proper measures in place to protect the crime scene”.

Ms Pekri said the police also failed to conduct an identity parade while the state pathologist who examined the woman had formed the wrong idea as to the events of the case.

At an earlier hearing cops accused journalists of “staging” the rape scene at the hotel after guests who checked into the room found condoms and an empty bottle of vodka despite the area being checked.

In his closing speech prosecutor Adamos Demosthenous told the court the sex attack was an ‘imaginary crime’ that never took place.

He said the woman had made up the allegation because she ‘felt shame and humiliation’ of being filmed having consensual sex.

The prosecutor said the films shot on mobile phones meant that the alleged victim had to change her story when she appeared in court to give evidence.

The girl, who denies a public mischief charge, faces a fine of £1000 and a maximum year in jail if convicted.

A Go Fund Me page set up by her family has raised more than £49,000 towards legal costs with many donations coming from Israel.