An innocent man was arrested after being falsely accused of trying to rape a man walking through Abbey Park in Pershore, a court heard.
Police raced to the park on December 21 last year after a 999 call made by 43-year-old Stephen Jones claiming he had been thrown to the ground and molested.
A man vaguely answering the description given by Jones spent four hours in Worcester police station being examined.
It was two months before it was established that Jones had been lying.
Jones of St Andrew’s Road, Pershore, was jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty at Worcester Crown Court to attempting to pervert the course of justice. He left the dock in tears.
Stephen Davies, prosecuting, said Jones reported the alleged attack at 5.30pm.
He claimed he had been grabbed from behind by a man who had threatened to rape him.
He had fought back, striking out, and the man ran off.
Because of the seriousness of the allegation, six police attended and an arrest was made of the man who proved to be innocent.
He had a charge hanging over him for two months and the effect had been stressful and traumatic.
Jones had been drinking and had an altercation with another customer in the pub.
He had been upset, went home and then complained to the police.
Jason Patel, defending, said Jones had been heavily intoxicated before returning to an empty home.
His behaviour was affected because he had been abused when he was a child but he was being counselled for his drink problem and his partner of six years was supporting him.
Judge John Cavell said Jones had acted “mindlessly” in making a false allegation for no apparent reason.
He found it difficult to link the actions of Jones with the suggestion that he had been abused as a child.
Link: http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/8731667.Man_made_false_rape_claim/
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When men do it,it is "mindless" and inexcusable,but when a woman does it, it is justified and she needs counseling from her trauma.
Perhaps some day the misandrist court system will treat both genders equally.
Oddly no calls from the police that they will run to investigate such claims will full force.
This is genuine justice,and stands out as the exception,only because the accusor was male.
yeah, quite right he was imprisoned, but the double standard is blindingly notable here.
"Judge John Cavell said Jones had acted “mindlessly” in making a false allegation for no apparent reason.
He found it difficult to link the actions of Jones with the suggestion that he had been abused as a child."
Interesting that, free from the natural male tendency towards chivalry, the judge could be clear-headed enough to recognize that whatever abuse that the false accuser might have suffered years ago could not be linked as a justification for making a false allegation.
Too many times we see that when it's a woman with a "troubled" past, great leniency is given to them.
Many of the injustices which stem from false rape allegations will need to be addressed in a step-wise process. Here, step one is for a judge to correctly assess that past trauma is no excuse for present misconduct. The next step will be to recognize that the same will hold true when considering the misconduct of a woman as if it had been a man.
Gender-feminists have long claimed they’ve sought “equality”, but, one can be certain that they never intended for female criminals to be seen as “equal” to men in the eyes of the law.
Cases such as the one of Stephen Jones, although rare, provide a chance for the courts to consider the appropriate view of a criminal, without the misapplied consideration of (female) gender.
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