UK: Nurse jailed for ‘despicable’ false rape claim against her grandad

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'Gordon Ritchie’s life was left in tatters after scheming Natalie Mortimer lied to police, claiming he had subjected her to sexual abuse when she was a child.

But her mother, Susan Simpson, began to have doubts about the story and Mortimer, 25, eventually admitted that the allegations were false.

Mortimer had previously been told that she and her younger sibling would be entitled to a share of inheritance money from Mr Ritchie.

But she believed that she would get all the cash if her grandfather was sent to prison. Mortimer admitted wasting 175 hours of police time – at a cost to taxpayers of more than £3,000 – when she appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.

Jailing her yesterday, Sheriff Graeme Buchanan said she had committed a “truly evil” crime.'