A foreign woman who went on a drunken bender after a fight with her boyfriend falsely accused a Libyan man of kidnapping her, a court heard today.

The woman - whose name cannot be published by court order – went out for a night on the tiles and woke up in the Libyan man’s Msida apartment with no recollection of the evening’s events.

Finding herself in unfamiliar surroundings in an empty apartment feeling a little worse for wear, the woman panicked when she was unable to open the front door.

Deciding that subtlety was not the best approach at this point, the woman called a friend, alerted the neighbours and eventually called the police who contacted the landlord to open the door.

By way of explanation, the woman told the police that she had been kidnapped, had a hood placed over her head and beaten by the Libyan man.

The woman was taken to hospital to be examined for signs of rape and interviewed by the police, at which point her cunning plan began to unravel, as the interviewing sergeant had seen the drunken woman together with the Libyan man and another man the previous night.

The sergeant had asked the clearly inebriated woman on the night in question if everything was okay – to which she replied yes –and noted that the woman seemed more than happy in the company of her two new male friends.

Prosecuting Officer Trevor Micallef told the court that the Libyan man was put through an unnecessary eight–hour interrogation thanks to the woman’s tall tale.

Photographs of the woman posing naked were found on the man's phone, which were taken in a way that clearly showed that the night's activities were consensual, the court heard.

Defence lawyer Francois Dalli argued that it was a case of a night out turned sour, and the woman had no intention of harming anyone.

Magistrate Gabriella Vella sentenced the woman to one month imprisonment suspended for a year, after she admitted to filing a false police report and being drunk in public.