UK: Woman, 21, faces jail after crying rape

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'A YOUNG woman faces jail for crying rape after her lies wasted 235 hours of police time and inflicted 15 weeks of misery on an innocent man.

Samantha Merry, 21, of Bells Chase, Great Baddow, admitted trying to pervert the course of justice at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday after she made the false rape claim earlier this year on March 3.

A 37-year-old from Chelmsford was arrested at his house and was kept on bail for 15 weeks until police dropped the charges.

Merry, a former Boswells School pupil, was bailed until November 15 and Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC told her: "Sort out your affairs on the assumption you're likely to be sent to prison."'