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A British teenager accused of lying about being raped has said her statement withdrawing the claims was "not in proper English" and there was "no way" she would have written it.
The 19-year-old woman, who cannot be identified, told the court that police forced her to make the statement.
She is on trial in Cyprus accused of causing public mischief by allegedly falsely claiming to have been raped by 12 Israeli men in Ayia Napa on 17 July.
She denies the charge.
The woman, who is giving evidence at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni, broke down in tears as she was cross-examined for more than three hours on Wednesday.
According to her testimony, she was gang raped in a hotel room in the resort but 10 days later she says police forced her to retract the statement.
Prosecutors say she willingly wrote and signed the statement, which was brought out in court.
'Doesn't make grammatical sense'
Giving evidence, the woman said: "This is not in proper English. This is in Greek English.
"I'm very well educated. I'm going to university, I got an unconditional offer so there is no way I would write a paragraph like this."
Her lawyers say she was told what to write by Cypriot police, led by Detective Sergeant Marios Christou, and the teenager made the statement fearing she would be kidnapped or killed.
"It doesn't make grammatical sense," the teenager said.
"All the way through there isn't one sentence an English person would write."
She broke down in court as she said she had lied to her mother in a text sent from the police station, when she messaged: "Trust me, I'm OK."
She told the court: "I think any child will lie to their parents to tell them they are OK because parents don't stop worrying about their child.
"If your child had just been raped by 12 Israelis and wouldn't get out of bed and had a throat so swollen she couldn't breathe and was taken to the police station for what she thought was an hour but then went on to be nearly eight hours."
More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50072902
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Trial still ongoing but I feel so sorry for this girl and my instinct is that she's been totally screwed over