UK: Woman jailed for two years for false rape accusation leveled to hide infidelity

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2013-01-17 22:57

Story here. Excerpt:

An unfaithful wife has been jailed for two years - almost a decade after she cried rape just to hide a one-night stand from her husband.

Gaynor Cooke, 41, had told police she was violently attacked by a taxi driver to cover up her fling with him, and her former lover was due to stand trial next month.
No-one was arrested in 2003 because a forensic sample taken from her at the time failed to find a similar profile on the national DNA database.
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But when in 2011 the man, who she claimed was a stranger, was detained for a minor offence his DNA threw up a match.

The man she slept with was charged with rape and faced trial at Nottingham Crown Court in February. However detectives received information that Cooke had lied to conceal her infidelity.

And when police went back to speak to the 41-year-old about the new evidence she told them: 'You've got me'.

Cooke, of Corby, Northamptonshire, wiped away tears as recorder Shaun Smith QC jailed her for two years.

The judge said her 'pack of lies' had 'for a short period of time destroyed an innocent life'.'

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The last sentence in the article is telling - the defendant (Gaynor Cooke) could hardly bear to hear the victim impact statement read aloud. Women don't want to know about the impact their actions have on men. They look the other way, and make believe such things don't exist.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Fri, 2013-01-18 08:44

It would be nice if some of these artciles could include those impact statements, just to get the truth of the crime out into the public

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Submitted by Kratch on Fri, 2013-01-18 12:13