Elizabeth Jones has ben jailed for 16 months after falsely claiming she had been raped 11 times in nine years by Southampton Crown Court. Main Picture: Wikipedia Source: news.com.au
AN ENGLISH woman described as a compulsive liar has been jailed for 16 months for falsely claiming she was raped for the 11th time in nine years.
Elizabeth Jones admitted she made the false claim because she "did not like" the man she accused of assaulting her, Southampton Crown court was told.
"There is a history of her making false allegations of this nature and this is the 11th incident,” prosecutor Jennie Rickman told the court.
"Police had to take her allegation seriously and carried out an appropriate investigation.
"She was later arrested and accepted she had lied about being raped - she said she did it because she did not like him," Ms Rickman said.
Detective Constable Tim Blanche said Ms Jones had made "intimate contact" with the unnamed male victim, but "they didn't live together".
The 22-year-old, who has made 10 other false rape allegations, urged an unidentified friend to report the assault to police. She later attended the local police station where she repeated the false allegations and underwent a full medical examination.
Police then arrested and questioned the man who denied the assault.
"The man was arrested and he gave a statement - he had to live his life with people accusing him of being a rapist," DC Blanche told The Daily Mail.
Police reviewed CCTV footage of the part of the house where Jones claimed she had been sexually assaulted and found the vision did not support her version of events and she was not forcibly taken there.
Ms Jones plead guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice.
Judge Derwin Hope said the offense was serious because it struck at the very heart of Britain's criminal justice system. In sentencing Jones to 16 months behind bars, Judge Hope also said the man had endured "terrible emotional experience" as a result of Jones' lies.
Megan Topliss for the defence said her client had experienced a disturbed childhood and had spent many years in care.
Ms Topliss added that Ms Jones had plead guilty at the earliest possible opportunity and had admitted to lying when challenged by police.
After Ms Jones was sentenced, it emerged that she made her first complaint at age 13 and had been given a ten month detention and training order in 2009 for a similar offence. Between 2005 and 2007 she made eight other sexual assault allegations to police, but was not charged.
DC Blanche said Ms Jones' history of false allegations left the judge with no other choice but to impose a custodial sentence as the CCTV footage clearly demonstrated that she was lying. He hopes that the case doesn't deter genuine victims from reporting sexual assault crimes to police.
"We encourage all victims to come forward, but sadly Elizabeth was one of the people that was not telling the truth," DC Blanche said.
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