A woman who falsely claimed she was raped in Bushy park in Dublin has been given a suspended three year sentence.
Liz Jameson rang 999 in the early hours of the morning in March 2009 saying she had been raped by two men who had grabbed her while out walking.
A month later she retracted her claims, saying an 11 year addiction to prescribed medication had resulted in a merging of reality and fantasy. She also told Gardai she lied about having terminal cancer.
During sentencing today the judge was told she's "more mad than bad".
http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=51917&locID=1.2.&pagename=news
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A 55-year-old mother-of- three, described as "more mad then bad" after she made a false report that she had been raped by two men has been given a three-year suspended sentence.
Liz Jameson made an emergency call claiming to have been raped in a Dublin park and gardai found her bruised and semi-naked. She later admitted the claim was false when gardai discovered she had been lying to her family about having terminal cancer.
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She told gardai "reality and fantasy had become merged" due to her prescription medication addiction which began when she was taking painkillers after a medical procedure went wrong in 1997, requiring life-saving surgery. A report handed into court by Michael Bowman, defending, said she suffered from Munchausen Syndrome and craved attention.
Jameson, of Marian Crescent, Rathfarnham, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the false rape claim. She had no previous convictions.
Judge Katherine Delahunt noted Jameson was now free of drugs and was taking just one anti-depressant per day.
She said neither the community nor Jameson would be served by her going to jail.
She imposed a three-year sentence which she suspended in full on strict conditions including that she attend all medical appointments. She ordered that €1,000 offered by Jameson's husband be paid over to the Rape Crisis Centre.
Charles Jameson told the court that a medical procedure that went dramatically wrong in 1997, had left his wife with an addiction to painkillers.
He said that after the death of her parents and then a house fire in 2008, "it all became too much for her" and she was in a poor psychiatric condition.
It was around this time that the story of having terminal cancer arose. Mr Jameson said he would drop his wife off at what he believed were treatments in hospital and believed she was terminally ill.
He said "things escalated again" with the rape allegation.
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Mr Jameson said his wife had now been weaned off all painkillers and was only taking one anti-depressant a day.
Mr Bowman said she was a "complex character" who was "vulnerable in the extreme."
He pointed out that no names had been given by Jameson, no one's character had been destroyed nor was anyone deprived of their liberty.
"This is a woman who is more mad then bad and she cries out for assistance," he said.
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/courts/mum-55-who-made-fake-rape-claim-was-more-mad-than-bad-2502137.html
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No, she is not more 'mad than bad'. She is a evil woman who should be punished for making this false accusation that could have lead to the destruction of the lives of the man/men she accused.
Meanwhile, while the lion sleeps...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/feb/10/rape-retracted-claims-prosecution-guideline
I'll have sympathy for this bitch the day I see:
"complex character" who was "vulnerable in the extreme."
or
"This is a man who is more mad then bad and she cries out for assistance,"
Applied to a man accused of ANYTHING let alone something that carries a 10 year stretch.
Well, at least she was convicted and will have a felony on her record regardless of the fact that the sentence was suspended.The story doesn't state whether she was taking these painkillers under the direction of a physician because then she could claim involuntary intoxication and possibly get off so I'll assume she was taking these drugs on her own which would be voluntary intoxication which is not a defence under the law. But let me just say this about opiate painkillers, they do not cause delusions or hallucinations. The antidepressant she's taking now is more likely to do this. But why do these females who want attention always choose to claim they were raped rather than just mugged or something if they want attention? Or in her case also making up a story that she's dying from cancer.I think that attention hungry females use rape because we all in general have viewed it as the worst crime on a par with murder.Real brutal rape is so rare that it's practically unknown and should not be used as the standard for rape. From what I've seen, rape is usually just a misunderstanding or accusation made by a female for some ulterior motive like an excuse or vengeance. None of these females show any sign of brutality and many make the claim at a later date where it would be impossible to see any injuries, a good sign that they're lying. And even though no man was harmed in this case these accusations go into police reports and then give skewered statistics on rape making it appear that rape is more common than it really is thereby draining money into "rape" prevention and training cops about rape when in fact it hardly exists at all and doesn't deserve all the attention it gets.
Anonymous - ”But let me just say this about opiate painkillers, they do not cause delusions or hallucinations. The antidepressant she's taking now is more likely to do this. But why do these females who want attention always choose to claim they were raped
rather than just mugged or something if they want attention?”
I thought the same thing about the “painkillers” as I read the story. Perhaps she was mixing painkillers and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) type antidepressants together, which can have a much more pronounced effect on a person.
As to the attention seeking issue, this women already had a propensity to be “over-the-top”, as evidenced by her “terminal cancer” claim.
My question, skeptic of woman’s motivations that I am, is, what was she doing during the time of all those “treatments”? Was it a way for her to hook-up with someone else? Of course, every time the story is about a woman being drug into the bushes while out alone late at night or in the early morning, I tend to suspect that there is an alibi angle at work. Thus, I would pose the possibility that her FRA was perhaps not a matter of “fantasy” but simply one needing to cover-up the real reason she was out walking alone at that time.
[Damn! I’m getting really jaded about these stories]
Shes not evil ... Just sick. I know the woman personally and she wad just dealt a bad hand. No point in takin a mother away from her kids
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