UK student spared jail after making false rape claim

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2012-05-12 12:44

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'A student has been spared jail for a false rape claim which led to a man being arrested and detained for nine hours.

Hannah Byron, 20, invented the sex attack in an attempt to win back an
ex-boyfriend, a court was told.

She was told by a judge that she avoided a jail sentence 'by a short whisker' for what police describe as a 'malicious report'.

Police strongly criticised Byron for putting the man through such an ordeal, for wasting their time, and possibly putting off genuine victims.'

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