Last month, I travelled to Cyprus to meet the British teenager convicted of making false allegations of rape.

On Monday last week, a court there found the 19-year-old guilty of “public mischief” for apparently fabricating the claim that she had been raped by 12 Israeli men while working in Ayia Napa. Today she was given a four month suspended jail sentence and is reportedly on her way back home.

Her ordeal has sparked outrage in Britain, with the Foreign Office saying it is “seriously concerned about the fair trial guarantees in this deeply distressing case” which the young woman’s lawyers say saw vital forensic evidence either not collected or inexplicably ruled inadmissable in court.

When I meet them, the teen and her mother are living in a rented apartment in a holiday resort which, out of season, resembles a ghost town. The pair are obviously close, and the mother tells me proudly that her daughter is determined to fight for justice.

The 19-year-old, from Derbyshire, is sleeping when I arrive at lunchtime; she has been suffering from hypersomnia in the wake of her ordeal. Upon waking, she tells me that she is grateful for my support, but is clearly dissociated and only just holding herself together.