THE British rape victim has warned other young girls: “Stay away from Cyprus.”

She told The Sun: “Cyprus was a holiday island for me but now it represents a personal hell.

7 A British rape victim has warned other young girls to 'stay away from Cyprus' after opening up about her ordeal Credit: Times Newspapers Ltd

7 The teen told how she secured a holiday spot with a company that charged high prices but forced her to stay in a damp, dangerous basement room Credit: Louis Wood - The Sun

“If you’re my age and thinking of going to Cyprus this summer, I’d just tell you this — don’t go, just go somewhere else.”

She had dreamed of a career as an anti-terror cop but, after speaking to a pal who had worked abroad, decided to spend a summer in the sun before her uni course.

After looking online, she found a company called Summer Takeover — paying just a £1 deposit to secure her place in Ayia Napa.

The girl, then only 18, paid more than £500 in total before jetting out last July.

RAW SEWAGE LEAKING INTO ROOMS

After landing with six others, she said she was charged another 300 euros in fees by reps.

She added: “I’d taken 450 euros and already I was nearly out of money.”

She was taken to a dank basement room which she shared with three others.

She said: “Within a few days we all started getting ill with chest infections and raw sewage starting leaking into the room.

“It was awful — worse than the prison cell I was held in later. People’s stuff kept on getting stolen and I had a dress that was taken and my debit card went missing.

"When a woman from the Foreign Office came after the rape happened, she was shocked at how we were all living.”

The hotel can have almost 1,000 guests at any one time in its 240 rooms.

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Famous for its pool parties, its biggest clients are young Brits, Russians, Swedes and Israelis all determined to enjoy sun, sea — and sex.

Summer Takeover has since stopped operating in Ayia Napa “in any capacity”.

In a statement to The Sun last year, it said it had been “let down by the accommodation provider”.

7 She says the living conditions at the hotel were worse than the prison she was held in Credit: Louis Wood - The Sun

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