Guardia Civil in Manilva have detained a young woman for making a false accusation of rape. She had claimed to have been "brutally raped by two dark skinned men".

According to the police their investigation had failed to produce any evidence, including medical, to corroborate her story.

The 17-year-old English girl had claimed that she was dragged from the taxi rank in Puerto de la Duquesa at around 4 am and taken to the beach where she was brutally raped.