A 26-year-old British woman has been sentenced to six years in prison in Hong Kong after reporting that she had been raped by a UK banker, who in turn accused her of blackmail. The case has drawn attention amid concerns that pursuing a rape allegation through the courts left the alleged victim facing serious criminal consequences rather than her alleged attacker.

The article does not set out the full sequence of the trial or the evidence considered by the Hong Kong court, but confirms the woman's age, nationality and the six-year sentence, alongside the counter-accusation of blackmail made by the banker she had accused. Further specifics of the legal proceedings were not detailed in the available report.