The 19-year-old British woman found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus has been sentenced to a four-month suspended jail sentence.
The teen, who has not been named, risked being jailed for up to a year and fined 1,700 euros when she was sentenced at Famagusta District Court in Paralimni on Tuesday.
Her lawyers asked Judge Michalis Papathanasiou to consider a suspended prison sentence after she was convicted of public mischief last week.
Her mother said the teenager is "terrified" of being sent to prison, having spent a month behind bars before she was granted bail in August.
"She has been in Nicosia state prison before, she knows what it is like," she told ITV News.
Her English lawyer, Michael Polak, from the Justice Abroad group, said a jail term could cause permanent damage to her mental health after she was diagnosed with PTSD.
Before the sentencing her mother said: "The best outcome I could hope for tomorrow is for her to get a sentence where she can come home. She needs to be back in the UK for her treatment for PTSD and that is my number one priority."
The teenager claimed she was raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists in a hotel room in the party town of Ayia Napa on July 17.
She was charged, while the young men, aged between 15 and 20, who were arrested over the incident, were freed after she signed a retraction statement 10 days later.
The woman maintains she was raped after having consensual sex with one of the Israelis but forced to change her account under pressure from Cypriot police.
The case hinged on a retraction statement signed by the teenager following hours of questioning alone and without legal representation.
