Woman jailed over false date rape claims

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-07-06 19:24

Story here. Excerpt:

'A WOMAN who falsely claimed she had been date-raped by a man she met over the Internet has been jailed.

Natalie Jefferson told officers she had been attacked in a back lane during a night out in Newcastle by a stranger she met in a chatroom.

As a result of her lies, an innocent man who has never been in trouble before was arrested and spent the best part of a day in police custody as a sex suspect.
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"This was a huge waste of police time, and, more serious than that, is this led to the arrest of an innocent man."'

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