Worth a lie I reckon.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-32302927

a very light sentence ... but it does show that these people DO get caught out.

JK2006 wrote:
Worth a lie I reckon.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-32302927

It is very much worth the risk. What use is that?

Yes ITK - great relief to see that police never assist or provoke false allegations and that all false accusers are pleading guilty and admitting their crimes. Thank Heavens for that.

This should attract an automatic and significant custodial sentence in my view, precisely because it could encourage pecuniary motivated claims, and undermines real cases of rape and abuse for real victims...

It also leaves a slight air of.."well she must have been through something not to get more than this..." for the poor sod who's life she almost ruined
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Actually, this isn't an instance of someone being "caught out." The woman apparently contacted police very promptly to retract her story. It looks like she sobered up and rediscovered her conscience and was genuinely very sorry. Had she persisted in her lies, it's unlikely she would have been found out.

I also think that a conviction for making a false report and wasting police time doesn't reflect the gravity of her act. It takes account of the nuisance to the police and the waste of public money in the courts. They are victims, as it were. However, such a charge doesn't encompass the anguish inflicted on the main victim, who is of course the taxi driver. I'd much prefer to have seen a charge of perverting the course of justice, which places the principal victim at the centre of the case, and which carries heavier penalties in the sentencing guidelines.

Here's a more detailed report
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crim...ensual-sex-1-3744112