UK: Aberdeen woman, 30, made false rape claim

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'AN ABERDEEN woman who sparked a major police investigation after falsely accusing a former partner of rape has escaped five years behind bars.

Elizabeth Christie, 30, told a detective at Aberdeen’s Grampian Police headquarters she had been raped.

Her alleged attacker was investigated and ordered to appear at the High Court in Aberdeen.

But Christie, whose address was given in court papers as 6f Park Road, Aberdeen, admitted the claims were false on September 2, 2007, at Aberdeen’s sheriff court.

Sheriff Annella Cowan sentenced Christie to two years’ probation.

Sheriff Cowan said: “I could send you to jail for five years. You acted very, very stupidly.”