UK: Woman who made false rape allegation is fined £90 (US$147)

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'A woman who cried rape has been handed a fixed penalty notice for wasting police time.

She had claimed two men had grabbed her and dragged into a house in Moss Side in broad daylight before being sexually attacked.

It prompted a huge police investigation and patrols were increased in the area.

But police have now confirmed the incident she described at a house on Adscombe Street on May 14 last year never happened.

The three men who were arrested on suspicion of rape have now been released without charge.

And the woman who had made the allegation has been handed a fixed penalty notice for wasting police time.'