A British fashion student who claims she was raped in a toilet on a college trip to Florence has been told she faces up to 12 years in an Italian jail on false allegation charges.

Serena Bowes, 21, who has waived her right to anonymity, was on an undergraduate visit to the city when she says she was raped in a nightclub toilet.

However, weeks after she returned home to Newcastle, she received a letter to say she faced charges for falsifying the rape - which she strongly denies.