UK: False rape claim woman is jailed

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'A MUM who lied about being raped has been jailed for two years.

On Tuesday Jennifer Day, 34, was led sobbing from the dock after she was sentenced for perverting the course of justice at Basildon Crown Court.

Day, of Williamson Way, Corringham, made a tearful 999 call on January 8, 2008, claiming she had been raped at home by an ex-boyfriend.

The boyfriend, Andrew Saxby, was arrested at work and held in custody for around ten hours before police became suspicious about inconsistencies in Day’s story.

They confronted Day, who had met Mr Saxby on a dating website, and admitted she had made up the claim.'