UK: Mother-of-two jailed for making TWO false rape claims against men she was dating after one didn't show up for a liaison

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2012-08-18 00:53

Story here. Excerpt:

'A mother-of-two has been jailed for making two false rape claims against men she was dating after one, who she had met online, failed to show up for a liaison.

Emma Saxon, 23, from Sheffield, was jailed for eight months after telling police she had been raped in a BMW car in a supermarket car park.

The victim of her slur Martin Blood spent 14 hours in a police cell and suffered the indignity of an intimate medical examination while the police spent 90 hours investigating before finally concluding it was a hoax.

Sheffield Crown Court heard Saxon, 23, was given a community penalty in 2007 after a similar false allegation against a former boyfriend.

Jailing her Judge Michael Murphy said: 'Rape is such a terrible, diabolical offence that it is always treated very seriously in these courts. It is a dreadful thing for a person to be raped. It is a most serious allegation for one person to make against another. It is truly awful if it is untrue.'

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Both the title and opening paragraph seem to focus on the fact she is a mother of two... But I can't find any reason why this is relevant, other than to try and make it sound like jailing this poor poor woman as unreasonable.

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Submitted by Kratch on Sun, 2012-08-19 03:00