British teenager convicted of making up gang rape claims in Cyprus speaks about ordeal in her first TV interview tonight

[stumbledin]

Believe Me: The Cyprus Rape Case is broadcast on Tuesday 14 April at 10.45pm on ITV

www.itv.com/news/2020-04-14/british-teenager-convicted-of-making-up-gang-rape-claims-in-cyprus-speaks-about-ordeal-in-her-first-tv-interview/

@Imfinallyhappy1 I poor thing

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Have never heard of Black Cube. Well worth a read I'm ordering it now it sounds an interesting book

Welcome to Mumsnet Homestayer
You seem overtly invested in undermining this young woman's story with unverified allegations. Why is that I wonder?

Sorry that happened to you FinallyHappy (I too hope you are) it happened to my friend many years ago in Egypt, the authority response was almost as bad as the gang rape. I don't blame you for not reporting I'm sad your parents haven't given more support.

Homestayer there is a video, (that the police saw and is in evidence) of the victim telling the young men who piled into the room to get out and is seen trying to drive them out of the room.
The audio on the video confirms this.

@Tonz £6.99 on Amazon kindle. It sounds good.
@truthisarevolutionaryact Her mate has proof on WhatsApp. Seriously though after watching the documentary I don't know how anyone wouldn't believe her

Got it @groundedby boris going to read it tonight while drinking my Espresso Martini recommended by another poster

The narrative that she was stitched up by a kangaroo court is unfair and smacks of racism to be honest, "of course those sneaky Greeks can't be trusted to give a Brit a fair trial can they eh?"

What a mind blowingly stupid comment, and it has a fair bit of competition. What "race" are Greeks then?

Also, it's not as if the same thing doesn't happen world wide. It's not specific to Cyprus. There was a documentary series on last year (I think) called 'Sex on Trial' which looked at rape trials in the US, and one of the cases featured was quite similar to this one. Two male police officers pressured the accuser into dropping the accusation and she ended up being jailed for a year. So happens everywhere, I'm afraid.

It's no wonder a shocking amount women don't report rape. This girl though she's going to fight this all the way and good for her. She may well change the view of victims and help stop this happening again

Mutton I watched a Netflix documentary a little while back about girls who had been drug raped and their rape recorded and shared on social media. There was a police man on there who claimed lots of girls report rape "for the attention". This was in America, no wonder rape is so unreported when that is the attitude of law enforcement.

It's no wonder a shocking amount women don't report rape.

Indeed. And it will continue as long as people like homestayer imagine that the porn soaked fantasies of young men have any connection to reality.

Sadly so true @Datun

Don't think @Homestayer will be back. Maybe trawling through WhatsApp

There's a good article here from Al Jazeera showing how treatment of women who have been raped in most European countries do not get justice.

It isn't about race, it is about patriarchal power and ingrained violence against women.

www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/cyprus-rape-case-tells-justice-europe-200119172255354.html

@stumbledin Holy shit I had no idea it was this bad. That's a hard ugly truth

Sadly I agree with you too @stumbledin

It defo seems an odd case. It probably hasn't helped that some of the men she accused were able to prove they weren't there at the time, but I do believe she was raped.

I don't think that's right current. It was the man she was dating who named some of the rest - she didn't know them. And one of the men he named wasn't there apparently.

Ah ok, I stand corrected, Fagan. I just remember reading that one of the defendants was able to prove his innocence as he'd posted a selfie in bed with his girlfriend.

Ffs, Datun not Fagan!

She didn't wrongly accuse anyone she didn't know these men it was the one she was dating who named them

The guy in bed with his girlfriend is another one of the pieces of incontrovertible proofs of her guilt oft quoted in the comments section of the Daily Mail (I've really got to stop reading them). But to be clear, she didn't know exactly who was in the room or even how many of them there were. As her 'boyfriend' was kneeling on her arms to pin her down, I assume she couldn't see exactly was happening, and one would imagine she was not thinking about the need to gather evidence of the assault as it was happening. (I can't work out how to add emojis - but I think confused, sad and angry about covers it)

I don't know this girl will never know her but this case really gets to me it's so distressing. The panic and terror the girl must have felt when they burst in the room oh my god the boy she was seeing kneeling on her shoulders. She wouldn't have been able to process faces and details. It makes me so angry maybe because I have daughters