Cypriot authorities failed to investigate the original claims of a British woman who was later convicted of lying about being gang-raped on holiday there, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
But the Cypriot attorney general refused to reopen the original case, leading her lawyers to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg.
The case sparked concern about fair trial guarantees in Cyprus, with the Foreign Office vowing to raise the case with authorities there, and protests being held in support of the woman in Cyprus and London.
During her previous appeal, the Supreme Court heard a forensic linguist also concluded her retraction statement was written in "Greek English" and therefore unlikely to have been written by her - and that a pathologist was of the view her injuries were consistent with gang rape.
After appealing against her case with the Supreme Court in Nicosia the conviction was quashed, with the judge ruling she had likely been forced into changing her statement and was not given a fair trial.
