A mother-of-three has been jailed for falsely claiming she was raped.Sophie Skinner, 25, from Llanfoist in Monmouthshire, denied perverting the course of justice but was found guilty by a jury.Newport Crown Court was told the life of her victim Damon Osborne was "turned upside down" by the accusation in 2016.She was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Daniel Williams after he said she had shown "no remorse at all".The court heard that Skinner went out drinking in Abergavenny "looking for attention" on Saturday, 4 June in 2016.CCTV showed her in a Wetherspoons pub, before going to public toilets in White Horse Lane."You then saw Damon Osborne who was waiting for a lift home - at the time he was 18 and you were 23," Judge Williams said."You ran over to him and hugged him... the CCTV at the toilets could not be clearer - you initiated the sex with him."When he gave into your persistent demands for sex you told him you could get him into trouble for having sex with you."The court was told that Skinner then made a false claim that she had been raped to Wetherspoons' door staff, and was interviewed by police.
A wheelchair-using woman who falsely claimed she was raped "for attention-seeking purposes" has been given a suspended sentence.Gail Chambers, 51, from Russell Drive in Lurgan, was given a three-year sentence suspended for three years.She concocted a "very lurid and graphic account" that she was raped in her Lurgan home in October 2015.The man she accused was arrested, had intimate samples taken and was then subjected to a police interview.Newry Crown Court was told it was the second time Chambers had perverted the course of justice by making a false rape claim.After providing an alibi which proved he was shopping in Belfast at the time Chambers claimed he was raping her, the man was released.However, the court was told the incident has had a lasting affect on him.Judge Melody McReynolds said that while cases such as this had an impact on already stretched resources and real victims of sexual crimes, she was taking into consideration Chambers mental and physical difficulties.
A woman who falsely claimed she was raped by a soldier after he "rejected her" has been jailed for five years.Rebecca Palmer, 26, from Royal Wootton Bassett, made the allegations against a soldier based in Tidworth, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.The CPS said Palmer had "indulged in consensual sexual activity" with the victim, 22, and launched a "malicious campaign" after he rejected her.She was found guilty of four offences of perverting the course of justice.She also pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to five offences of malicious communications and three offences of perverting the course of public justice.Joanne Jakymec, chief crown prosecutor, said Palmer had sent "malicious communications" to both the victim and his family and "repeatedly made false allegations" including an allegation of rape.'Fake friend profiles'"Rebecca Palmer indulged in consensual sexual activity with the victim but on being rejected by him, embarked on a malicious campaign which led to him being arrested on more than one occasion and held in custody for periods of time," she said.
German model Gina-Lisa Lohfink has been convicted of making false rape allegations against two men in a case that has sparked debate across Germany.She was fined €20,000 (£17,200; $22,600) by a court in Berlin.A video showing Lohfink having sex with the two men in 2012 and saying "No" found its way on to the internet. She insists the incident was rape.But at a subsequent trial the two men were cleared of rape and Lohfink was accused of making false testimony.Lohfink is a former competitor on reality TV show Germany's Next Top Model, and the high-profile case partly informed a recent change to Germany's rape laws.A new law was passed in July clarifying that "no means no" even if the victim did not fight back.
A "serial liar" who made a series of false rape allegations has been convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice.Jemma Beale claimed she had been raped or sexually assaulted by 10 men, in four different encounters.One allegation led to the conviction of a man who was jailed for seven years.The 25-year-old from Hounslow was found guilty following a six-week trial at Southwark Crown Court. She is due to be sentenced on 24 August.Kevin Lynott, who led the investigation by the Metropolitan Police into the false allegations, said Beale had "been exposed as a serial liar"."I can only think that she was motivated partly by financial reward, but mainly the attention and control over her partners and family at the time she made the allegations," he added.
A 62-year-old woman has been jailed for six months after falsely claiming she was attacked and raped in her Norfolk home by two men.Wendy Willson claimed to have been violently attacked in her King's Lynn home just days before Christmas 2013.The inquiry into her false claims cost police £70,000 to investigate, Norwich Crown Court heard.Willson was convicted of perverting the course of justice and fraud after trying to claim £6,000 from insurers.Although she originally claimed nothing had been stolen during the incident, it later emerged she had failed in a bid to claim from an insurance company.
A woman who claimed she was raped twice by the same man in the same Edinburgh park, five months apart, has been jailed for two years.Shereen Mirza, 21, had denied between 15 May 2012 and 2 April 2013, falsely claiming she had been sexually attacked and raped in the King George V park.The jury of 12 women and three men, however, found her guilty after a nine-day trial earlier this month.She was sentenced at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.Sheriff Michael O'Grady told Mirza: "In many years in these courts in one capacity or another, I have come across the whole range of hateful, hideous and downright bizarre things that people do to each other and the world at large, but I doubt, however, in all that time that I have encountered a course of conduct so strange, so needless and so hard to fathom as yours."It is also a course of conduct that is selfish, devious and persistent to a truly remarkable degree.
A woman has admitted making a false rape allegation against a man who ran off and left her after they had consensual sex on a train.Karen Farmer, 35, told officers that a man had sexually assaulted her while travelling from Glasgow to Blantyre.She later admitted making the false claim after police reviewed CCTV images showing her and a man, 23, engaged in sexual activity on the train.At Glasgow Sheriff Court, sentence on Farmer was deferred and bail continued.The court heard that Farmer, from Paisley, and the man had been on a date in Glasgow city centre on 14 August 2012.
A law graduate who falsely accused her boyfriend of rape as an excuse for failing her exams has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.Rhiannon Brooker, 30, was convicted at Bristol Crown Court of perverting the course of justice.She claimed Paul Fensome, 46, had beaten her, forced her to have sex and also caused her to miscarry. She also faked injuries to suggest he hit her.Brooker faked the rape claims as an excuse for failing her law exams.'Utterly wicked'Brooker, from Frampton Cotterell in South Gloucestershire, was found guilty of 12 charges related to five false rape claims.She also lied about six assaults and a claim of false imprisonment.
A woman who falsely claimed she had been raped has been jailed for a year.Cathy Richardson, 26, from Viking Court in Shoebury, Essex, told officers she had been sexually assaulted several times over two months in 2012 by a man she knew.A man was arrested on suspicion of rape but was later released without charge after a series of interviews.Richardson was jailed for 12 months at Basildon Crown Court after admitting perverting the course of justice.'Intrusive medical examination'Det Ch Insp Scott Cannon of Essex Police said: "When a false allegation of rape is made, it heightens the difficulty for those victims who have suffered from sexual abuse."
A woman who falsely claimed she was raped as she walked home from a nightclub in Brighton has been jailed for two years.Sharlene James, 26, of Parham Close, Brighton, told police in 2011 that a man had pulled her into the New Steine community gardens and attacked her.Sussex Police said they arrested her when they realised it had not happened.James was sentenced after being found guilty of one count of perverting the course of justice at Lewes Crown Court.Following sentencing, Det Ch Insp Carwyn Hughes said: "Police were already investigating a number of incidents in the Kemp Town area when this allegation was made.
A woman who made a false rape claim against her ex-boyfriend after he ended the relationship by text message has been sentenced to three months in jail.Natasha Foster, from Ballymoney Road in Ballymena, County Antrim, told police in 2011 that her on/off boyfriend had sexually attacked her in her home.Two days later she admitted to officers that she had lied about the rape claim.She was charged with perverting the course of justice - a charge she pleaded guilty to in September.On Monday, the judge at Antrim Crown Court said the 23-year-old's actions were apparently shaped by receiving a text from an ex-boyfriend she had sexual relations with on 22 November 2011.
A woman who falsely claimed she had been raped twice on the same night has been sentenced to a community payback order of 250 hours of unpaid work.Jodie Murray, 23, of Dinwoodie Drive in Dumfries, admitted falsely claiming she had been raped by an unknown man at Greensands in the town on 3 December.She also falsely claimed she had been attacked at a house in Dumfries by a man she had named.The sheriff said she had subjected the young man to a distressing ordeal.Kenneth Ross said it was only because she had two young children that he would not send her to prison.As well as the community payback order, she was also put under supervision for two years and given a curfew to remain in her home between 20:00 and 08:00 for six months.Her solicitor said that she had previously been a victim of domestic violence and had received threatening text messages that evening and made up the story after a neighbour called the police.
A mother who falsely accused a taxi driver of raping her has been jailed for 20 months at Mold Crown Court.Angela England, 42, who was living in Conwy county at the time, admitted perverting the course of justice on 30 May last year.She claimed the taxi driver had raped her near her home, but his vehicle was fitted with a tracking device which proved she was lying, the court heard.The false allegation was invented following a night out in Llandudno.The man was arrested in front of fellow taxi drivers and was then given an "embarrassing" examination at a police station, the court was told.
A University of Cumbria student who lied about being raped during a spate of sex attacks has been give a four-month suspended jail sentence.Magistrates heard how Chloe Fox, 20, of Spencer Street, Carlisle, wasted 650 hours of police time by claiming she had been attacked in the city.She told police she had been dragged from Warwick Road into an alley in the early hours of 19 September 2011.The journalism student admitted she had lied 20 days after making the claim.The prosecution solicitor Adrienne Harris told the court police officers had asked Fox if she was sure she was telling the truth when they noticed a number of inconsistencies.University placeShe said CCTV footage showed it took just three minutes to walk home which would have not allowed enough time for the attack to take place.The prosecution also said Fox had no injuries and there was no forensic evidence either on her or at the scene.
A woman who admitted making a false allegation of rape against a bus driver has been jailed for 18 months at Inverness Sheriff Court.Charlene Kielty, 23, of Inverness, claimed she was attacked on a bus travelling from Grantown on Spey to Cromdale in August 2009.The court heard that in October 2010 the results of forensic tests had shown no link between Kielty and the driver.She admitted in December 2010 that she had made the story up.Sheriff Ian Abercrombie said Kielty had "maintained this deception" for months and only now had the driver's name been cleared.The sheriff said: "One cannot imagine the distress that you caused him and his family."
A woman who told police she was burgled and raped has admitted perverting the course of justice.Wendy Wilson, 61, claimed two men broke into her home in King's Lynn, Norfolk, before raping and assaulting her just before Christmas 2013.Detectives later found she had not reported anything stolen but had tried to claim £6,000 from insurers.Wilson also admitted fraud by false representation during a Norwich Crown Court hearing on Wednesday.Norfolk and Suffolk's major investigation team said it had conducted detailed enquiries in response to the claims."However, as forensic, witness and financial enquiries progressed, officers began to question Wilson's version of events," a police spokesman said."Initially, she had not reported anything stolen or damaged during the incident but was subsequently found to have attempted to claim more than £6,000 from her insurers."Wilson of Dodmans Close, King's Lynn will be sentenced on 8 March.
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