Famagusta criminal court has acquitted all defendants of all charges relating to the alleged gang rape of a British female tourist in Ayia Napa in September 2023, it emerged on Monday.
The complainant, aged 20 at the time, had claimed she was sexually assaulted and raped by five Israeli nationals on September 3, 2023. The five defendants were Israeli men between the ages of 19 and 20.
The defendants had faced charges of rape, sexual abuse, forced sexual intercourse, sexual harassment and abduction.
This trial was separate to the infamous 2019 case of another alleged gang rape, also in Ayia Napa.
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