Refika Shakirova, the "victim" in her story of brutal assault and rape, provided police with photos of her alleged agony, including one we will not publish showing her allegedly being sodomised. (Photos courtesy Crime Suppression Division)

Uzbek woman Refika Shakirova looked weary when she met police late last month after she escaped from a gang of three men who allegedly assaulted and raped her, demanded a ransom and detained her for nine days.

Photos of Ms Shakirova being handcuffed and tortured were also handed to officers as evidence. She told them she obtained the photos from the Line App of her boyfriend, who received them from the gang.

Investigators from the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) spent nearly a week searching for the suspects, but what they found eroded......

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