Six month ordeal of British woman 'raped' by 12 Israelis the woman from Derbyshire has been spared jail and is allowed back to UK as early as this afternoon

The 19-year-old woman from Derbyshire is swept away from court today and is expected to leave on a flight to Britain in the coming hours after receiving a suspended sentence in the controversial Cyprus rape case (left). The teenage Israeli footballer at the centre of the case Shimon Yusufov (together right), who denied rape, hit back today with his lawyer saying: 'We hope she's learned her lesson'

I hope she's learned her lesson: Israeli footballer, 19, who had sex with British 'gang-rape' teenager has no sympathy as she flies home to continue fight to clear her name after Cyprus president did not pardon her

Unnamed woman from Derbyshire has been spared jail and is allowed back to UK as early as this afternoon

Campaigners are demanding Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades steps in and pardons her immediately

Judge Michelins Papathanasiou gave 'second chance' because she has been faraway from family and friends

Student insisted she was held down by her footballer boyfriend and raped by up to 12 Israeli men in Cyprus

Teenager faced a year in prison after Cypriot court found her guilty of lying - but was handed suspended term

19-year-old was mobbed as she arrived and left court by supporters - many of them flew in from Israel

She was during a relationship with semi-pro footballer Shimon Yusufov, also 19, who she later accused of rape

The Israeli footballer who had a vacation fling with British teenager who later accused him and 11 friends of gang-raping her in Ayia Napa taunted her as she was freed today and said: 'I hope she has learned her lesson'.

The 19-year-old woman from Derbyshire, who MailOnline has chosen to not name, broke down and hugged her family this morning after a judge in Cyprus gave her a four-month suspended sentence after being controversially convicted of lying.

She was during a consensual relationship with semi-pro footballer Shimon Yusufov, also 19, but told police he held her down while she was raped by a gang of 12 who also filmed it on their mobile phones during a bedroom after an evening out last July.

Yusufov, who plays for Beit Shemesh FC near Jerusalem, denied rape along side his 11 friends but said today he accepted she should be allowed to return to Britain after six hellish months in Cyprus.

His lawyer Nir Yaslovitzh told MailOnline: 'He takes the opinion that justice has been done. She was found guilty by the court of lying and that i hope with this sentence she has learned her lesson. We respect the choice of the court and in fact she was found guilty.’

Tel Aviv based Yaslovitch said the girl would be 'stupid' to launch an appeal against her conviction for public mischief, adding: 'The appeal court will hear an equivalent evidence and are available to an equivalent conclusion. it's a crazy thing to do'.

The young Briton was mobbed by many supporters as she left Famagusta District Court in Paralimni and was caught in a frenzy to a hotel where she is going to be handed back her passport and brought to the airport for a flight to the united kingdom this afternoon.

After the sentencing, with tears in her eyes, she said she was 'relieved' before her mother held her arms aloft and yelled to supporters: 'She's coming home'.

But she remains a convicted criminal because the suspended sentence handed down today meant a pledge by Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades to pardon her if she was jailed never materialised. Her appeal are going to be filed in the week but her legal team hope Mr Anastasiades will still step in.