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<\/p>\nFIVE men accused of abducting and gang-raping a British tourist in Ayia Napa broke down in tears as their trial started today.<\/p>\n
The suspects, all aged 19 or 20, after the "highly-distressed" woman, 20, told cops in Cyprus she was violently sexually attacked.<\/p>\n
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She told police she was taken "by force" to a hotel room by at\u00a0least five Israeli men on September 3.<\/p>\n
The victim later bravely identified her alleged attackers and accomplices who are claimed to have tried to clean up blood with bed sheets.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, five Arab-Israelis from a town near Acre were hauled before a three-member panel of judges in Famagusta district court.<\/p>\n
The accused, who have been held in custody since the alleged attack, hugged relatives in the packed chambers.<\/p>\n
Some of the suspects even wept as they were led into the courtroom.<\/p>\n Michael Polak, who heads the UK-based legal aid group\u00a0\u00a0Justice Abroad, told The Sun: "The young lady in this case is determined to make sure that justice is done.<\/p>\n "It was a horrifically violent incident and she wants to make sure that no one else suffers the same again."<\/p>\n At a previous hearing in September, a prosecutor told the court she had enough evidence to jail the group for what was \u201ca very serious crime.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the horror moment the Brit tourist was allegedly dragged into a hotel room is understood to have been caught on CCTV.<\/p>\n The five suspects have all denied rape and instead claim they had\u00a0"consensual sex" with the woman.<\/p>\n Their defence team's demand that DNA evidence be brought before the court was granted by judges on Thursday.<\/p>\n But a doctor who examined the victim is understood to have confirmed she was a virgin at the time of the vicious assault.<\/p>\n The prosecutor described in devastating detail how the woman was "taken by force" by one of the men from the pool area of an Ayia Napa hotel.<\/p>\n She was allegedly taken to a room where she was pinned down and raped.<\/p>\n The prosecutor said: "They pushed and pulled her by the hair, brought her to their room where she was forcibly undressed and pushed to the bed.<\/p>\n \u201cThen three others came in. She tried to flee but one of them caught her.\u201d<\/p>\n The Brit, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, not only reported the attack the same day but picked out and identified her assailants in a police lineup. <\/p>\n Cypriot police described the victim as being \u201chighly distressed.\u201d<\/p>\n Giving testimony to cops in Ayia Napa hours later, she claimed she had been \u201cgrabbed by the hand, pulled by the hair\u201d and suddenly attacked following a pool party at the hotel.\u00a0 <\/p>\n The testimony, which the Sun has seen, is too graphic to publish.<\/p>\n After seeing blood in the room, the suspects let the tourist clamber free from a window in the second-floor room, the prosecutor told the court.<\/p>\n The Brit immediately ran to the reception where, crying uncontrollably, she related what had happened, it is alleged.<\/p>\n A security guard who rushed to the room claimed he found two men cleaning up.<\/p>\n The trial is set to continue on October 16 when DNA samples are expected to be presented before the court as evidence by the prosecution.<\/p>\n Lawyers hired by the suspects include Nir Yaslovitz who defended three of the 12 men and boys ultimately found guilty of raping an 18-year-old British student in Cyprus four years ago.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/newspress-collage-24279567-1696500137868.jpg\")
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