A 21-year-old aspiring model is facing jail after falsely accusing a man of rape.
Samantha Merry, from Great Baddow, wasted over 230 hours of police time after making the false claim relating to a 37-year-old man from Chelmsford back in March of this year.
At Chelmsford Crown Court this week, Merry pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in court last week and now faces sentencing on 15 November.
Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC warned Merry: “Sort out your affairs on the assumption you're likely to be sent to prison.”
“Perverting the course of justice is a serious matter. A man was arrested in his home, spent 15 weeks on bail and there were 235 man hours wasted. It has a bad impact and affects rape cases all over the country.”
After the case, Chief Inspector Joe Wrigley, of Essex Police, said: “Justice has been done and I hope it serves as a warning to anyone who would want to make a false allegation.
“There are enough real crimes for us to investigate. The real victims need our support and those who don't should refrain from doing this.”
Merry was granted unconditional bail and will be sentenced next month.
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http://www.theenquirer.co.uk/False+rape+claim+girl+faces+jail%20id=3531
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Thank you.
Made my day.
I can only hope that the judge makes an example out of this FRA.
This woman committed her fraud and crime.
She made the false rape allegation (fact) because (she alleges) her drug dealer told her he would cancel her debt to him if she specifically accused the man she did.
It is worth noting this because this is yet another scenario in which women are prepared to send innocent men to prison for life.
While the revenge / shame / divorce reasons are still valid for the bulk of FRA's, we should remember that the "outliers" reasons for FRA's are also significant, as they complete the picture.
These women simply do not care, AT, ALL.... NOT ONE JOT, what anyone else suffers, as long as some perceived benefit is accrued by themselves.
I have often mentioned that IMHO many FRA's are made by women with a Cluster B Personality Disorder, as we can see from this case, at the very least she is a psychopath and sociopath.
Thankfully, this being in the UK, (where we are having at least one of these women imprisoned a week) this woman will have imprisonment for Perverting the Course of Justice hanging around her neck, and every database going, for the rest of her life.
***THIS*** is what will prevent her from making any further accusations that lead to a man's life being damaged or ruined, not the fact that her name / file is flagged as having made multiple accusations, but the fact that she has been imprisoned for Perverting the Course of Justice.
This means it has been found, both as a matter of record, and as a matter of legal fact, that this woman's word is absolutely WORTHLESS... for life.
Hurray... and another one bites the dust.
Couldn't have happened to a better young woman. She should be ashamed of herself.
I'm glad she's facing jail time for making a false rape claim.
People like her make a mockery of the seriousness of Rape.
Thanks for posting her picture.
This is what a FRA looks like.
Just a look around at a number of different articles on this case. The tone of each is quite different.
Firstly Essex Police(DI Richard Thomas of Chelmsford CID quoted)...
Woman jailed over false rape claim
In respect of the real victim they had this to say...
"...and led to an innocent man being arrested."
Their concerns are only for the waste of police time and otherwise they desperately reassure rape accusers that they should not be deterred from reporting.
"A team of eight police officers was involved in the initial investigation but their time could have been better spent focusing on other offences which CID officers deal with on a regular basis."
Is that so?
elsewhere...
Woman who accused man of rape jailed
The judge was told that Merry's victim had been arrested after eight police officers woke him and his family just after 4am. He then spent 23 hours in police custody and 16 weeks on bail.
and from
False rape claim woman is jailed
The judge had been told earlier that after Merry made a 13-page statement, eight police carried out an early morning swoop on the house of the man she accused and he was arrested.
His house was searched and he spent 23 hours in custody.
This is presumably the "initial investigation" to which DI Thomas referred. Sounds more like a raid to me.
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