Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Facebook hacker, Zoe Williams, jailed after falsely accusing boyfriend of rape

So let me get this straight. The judge calls her "really wicked" but she only gets 4 months in jail? I'd hate to see what someone who isn't "really wicked" would get.

Zoe Williams gets 4 months for "really wicked" act.

A young mother who had accused her ex-boyfriend of rape hacked into his Facebook site to post a threat to herself to bolster her fakery.

Zoe Williams was described as "really wicked" by the judge, who jailed her for four months.

A court heard she tried to set up her ex-boyfriend partner after accused him of raping her several times after the end of their five-year relationship in 2007.

After the false allegations, the man was arrested and held in custody for eight hours as he protested his innocence.

Williams, 23, of Chard, Somerset, later admitted concocting the message and prosecutor Caroline Bolt said the rape allegations were not proceeded with.

Williams, who has since married and has a baby, admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice at Taunton Crown Court.

She was caught when police seized her computer and proved she had written a message warning herself to drop the rape allegations.

Ed Boyce, mitigating, said: "She felt the police were not taking seriously the complaints of rape she made to them, so she decided to invent this message and sent it to herself in the hope that it would strengthen her complaint. It has done completely the opposite and she regretted what she did."

Judge Graham Hume Jones jailed her for four months and said: "What you did was particularly wicked.

"People have to realise that however strong their feelings may be, they must not interfere with a court of justice and make false allegations.

"In this case, the false allegation was very serious indeed and gave an impression that a potential defendant was interfering with a witness involved with a charge of rape."


Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7685381/Facebook-hacker-jailed-after-falsely-accusing-boyfriend-of-rape.html

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Given that the article is form last month she'll actually be out of prison within 21 days!

(prisoners generally serve half their sentences in the UK)

AfOR said...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286546/Teacher-groomed-schoolboy-sex-sent-jail-ordered-stay-away-boys.html

Anonymous said...

Text messages, facebook, email, phone cameras, security cameras...

Who knew that technology would come to the rescue and decisively disprove all these false allegations?!

Zee

slwerner said...

As a follow-up to an earlier story about a college women who was pissed-off that her brother was getting all the families attention (as he was about to be married), so she faked her own kidnap/rape scenario; well, she's finally made a court appearance on her (you guessed it, misdemeanor) charges.

College student accused of making fake rape report appears in court

Here's the kicker: While she is being charged, and this case is apparently going to play out (as opposed to being quietly dismissed, as is so often the case), despite the fact that she lives with her parents, the fact that she is 21 and a full-time college student is being used to justify having the citizens of Ohio pick up the tab for her defense.

So, she cost the police hours spent searching for her, more hours "mopping up" the case, and now she's costing even more. And, in the end, she's facing misdemeanor charges, which means that the judge is limited in how much he can even fine her for all of the costs of her lies, assuming she doesn't get the benefit of the "poor, troubled you woman" treatment, and a free pass in the end.

This, again, goes to make the point that we desperately need felony-level statutes for FRA's, perhaps akin to the UK's Perversion of The Course Of Justice. In this case, prosecutors are willing to follow-through with charges (even if only weak ones), and even if convicted, the liar who set the entire costly affair in motion will face little, if any, tangible punishment for having done so. My guess, a $500 fine (which daddy, spared the cost of a defense attorney, will pay for her), and the requirement that she stay out of trouble for a year so that the whole sordid matter can be wiped clean from her record.

A felony, on the other hand, could not be wiped away, and would allow for more meaningful fines.[/rant]

Anonymous said...

Make no mistake about it Folks...It is the perversion of the now dominant upper white middle class Gender / Raunch community who have perverted our legal system into fostering a false rape culture.
You see by attacking heterosexual males with false rape accusations...IT EMPOWERS THE GENDER / RAUNCH community as a whole.

Anonymous said...

When are men going to wake up and realize there is a war against/on them?

Anonymous said...

Forever. Men never believe that false accusations will happen to them or to their loved ones until it's too late.

They always imagine daddy's little princess in the role of accuser, and don't care if she's really a liar.

Anonymous said...

http://www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk/news/9314351.Chard_mum_raises_awareness_of_baby_loss/

not the first time she's appeared in the newspaper...

Anonymous said...

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3997377767328.161767.1067504370&type=3

check out this link- the newspapers never said she lied about RAPE- she lied about witness intimidation, which is something different- apparently these are photos of the court paperwork (which could be made public 24months after a case is closed and dealt with) which she the charge sheet and her statment....nothing about false rape, only false messages of witness intimidation which is something entirely different.....gotta love how newspapers like to twist sh&t really!