So What Happenned Here Then.....?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50945206
Labour supporter trying to get the jews into trouble?

[Ellipsis]

Either she was gang-raped or she wasn't. I don't know what happened, do you?

[ToraToraTora]

well she's been arrested for falsely claiming to have been ganged raped by some Israeli's, I'm assuming that the arrest is based on some investigation etc.

[ToraToraTora]

sorry she's been found guilty.

[Old_Geezer]

The article says she signed a confession. But it seems correct procedure may not have been followed.

[ToraToraTora]

sorry apostrophe wrong above.

[Ellipsis]

Looks to me like the Cypriot authorities have handled it appallingly. So, I don't know what happened ...

[Theland]

"It was reported that the accused who had signed a confession, appeared in court, with blackened eyes and no fingernails. The police said she had slipped in the shower."

[Gromit]

There is no evidence she supported any political party, let alone Labour.
25% of Israelis are not Jewish.
But apart from that, spot on Tora.

More likely the Cypriot authorities bullied her into retracting the allegation to protect their tourist trade.

[naomi24]

//25% of Israelis are not Jewish. //

That'll be about the Arab proportion of the population then. Careful Gromit. ;o)

I see nothing in the report to say she supported any particular political party.

[Gromit]

// Her defense team, which claims she was pressured into changing her testimony, earlier this month presented the court with text messages sent between the Israelis which it says show the alleged rape was planned in advance. //

// Israeli journalists and social media users on Monday decried the heroes’ welcome extended to a group of teenagers who were released by Cypriot police after a British tourist recanted her claim that she was gang raped by them.

In the arrivals hall, the teens, all wearing white yarmulkes, loudly celebrated their release by opening champagne bottles, chanting “Am Yisrael Chai” (the people of Israel lives) along with “the Brit is a ***.”

“So what we have here is a group of teenage boys, who it turns out are not rapists, just the type of boys who would engage in group sex with a drunk girl, film it without her permission and then send it around to their friends. There’s no doubt, they are obviously good boys,” columnist Hen Artzi-Sror said. //

[Gromit]

*** = w ho re

[Ellipsis]

Interesting additional comments from her lawyer ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle-east-50944483/cyprus-rape-claim-case-it-s-a-very-worrying-conviction

[Gromit]

A drunk British woman is taken advantage of by a gang of Israeli men.
And Tora thinks they were the victim of anti semitism.

[Peter Pedant]

// That'll be about the Arab proportion of the population then. Careful Gromit. ;o)//

scoring well today sweet one - they are the Israeli rabs
nd yup some politician is saying ( really ) they gonna outbreed the proper jews

when Israel was liberated by the jjews - not all the Arabs took to the road south to Gaza but stayed. They are now the Israeli arabs ( and do two years in the armed forces like the jews)

have citizehship - and are NOT palestinian - the Gazans were deprived of citizenship by means I dont know

the cypriots have convicted the girl over a witness crime ( making a false statement - the first one alleging rape)
and it must have been a rude surprise to her to withdraw her statement and get indicted herself

here the police would have shrugged and the girl gone free

Imagine it: "OK I wivdrawr it - can I go home now?"
no my dear - here is a barred cell for you !

[Peter Pedant]

their rich parents immediately sent in expensive lawyers
who got them acquitted

and the girl kinda whinged "wa''a bout me? I am da victim here innit?"
and they kinda said - well your parents can send one
and she said - "they aint go' no marney you know moolah, spondoolees"
and they said - well they cant send him then can they?

+++
yes I have been the butt end of malicious allegations in another frame completely ( she didnt want to pay the rent ) and I didnt rip her finger nails out but at the end I felt like it....

[naomi24]

Ah, you spotted just my post again, PP. No hiding from you today. I wonder if anyone else notices that I'm your favourite?

[Peter Pedant]

right! - now back to the subject:
what happened here then?
I dont think we will really know / find out

[Mozz71]

Gotta say it 3T, using what appears to be a rape victim who appears to have been beaten in order to change her testimony to score political points, against a party who clearly have nothing to do with the event in question, is pretty low. It sounds like the kind of thing Gulliver would attempt.

And let's be fair, there are plenty of rods to beat Labour up with without tying them to this kind of thing.

[Ellipsis]

> the cypriots have convicted the girl over a witness crime ( making a false statement - the first one alleging rape) and it must have been a rude surprise to her to withdraw her statement and get indicted herself

Yes, especially considering that no attempt was made to determine whether the statement was false or not. As her lawyer said, "It's very worrying for a court to rely upon a retraction statement given after more than 7 hours in a police station without any legal representation, and without any interpretation, from somebody who was suffering from PTSD."

Since the men (very classily) posted the sex taking place on social media, there's no doubt that it happened. The only question is whether it was rape or consensual.

[naomi24]

//Since the men (very classily) posted the sex taking place on social media, there's no doubt that it happened. The only question is whether it was rape or consensual. //

I agree.