A former law student who cried rape because she was ‘too ashamed’ to tell her family she had been kicked out of university was locked up for two years yesterday.
Aisha Mather, 19, ripped her tights, overturned a coffee table and pulled down curtains in an attempt to convince police she had been attacked at knifepoint and raped in her home.
She believed this would give her an excuse to leave her course and move back in with her parents, and kept up the pretence for eight days – even after police arrested a man who matched her detailed description of the tattooed black ‘rapist’.
Three other men were questioned during a major investigation involving forensic examinations and door-to-door inquiries.
Nottingham Crown Court heard that Mather had been studying law at Nottingham Trent University but had mounting debts and spent ‘more time socialising than studying’. She was ordered to leave after failing her first-year exams.
Phillipa Ellis, defending, said Mather was ‘too ashamed to tell her parents what was going on, and made up a story to get out of Nottingham without having to incur further debt’.
Yesterday, Mather sobbed in the dock as Judge Tony Mitchell described her actions as ‘mind-boggling’.
He added: ‘You had been playing the fool at university, got yourself into debt, and wanted your parents to dig you out without having to admit the truth. Your behaviour was utterly despicable.’
Dawn Pritchard, prosecuting, said that on the night of the ‘attack’ in January Mather had been unable to pay for shopping because she had run out of money.
She rang her father and claimed she had been followed home by a man, then became hysterical, prompting her mother to take the phone and ask if she had been raped.
When Mather simply continued crying, her mother assumed she had been attacked and told her to call the police.
When officers arrived, Mather told them that the man had followed her home from the university library.
The court heard that Mather had ‘seemed visibly shocked’ when describing the incident to detectives and had consented to a medical examination.
Her account even included the name of the book she had been reading in the library.
But when officers checked with library staff and discovered that it was in storage and not available to read, they began to doubt Mather’s version of events.
Miss Pritchard said that during a second interview with police, Mather admitted she had made up the allegations because she ‘had no money, was not at university, and needed to get out of Nottingham’.
Mather, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, admitted perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to two years in a young offenders institute.
Thanks to AfOR for the tip.
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006373/Female-law-student-jailed-making-rape-allegation-ashamed-failing-university.html
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If this had happened in America she wouldn't have done time.
its young offenders, its hardly time it is a positive step forward though , although the comments sextion of the article baffled me.
Isn't this in the UK? I am surprised she didn't get a ton of money for the "assault" to pay for her studies.
If this happened in America, PC 'experts' would be brought forth that would state she was victimized as a result of the sexism and racism in society.
Atlas
”…Mather had been studying law at Nottingham Trent University but had mounting debts and spent ‘more time socialising than studying’.”
I probably sound like a broken record on these cases, but I’ll continue to point out that there seem to be a significant number of false rape claims at universities (usually between mid-terms and finals) as the party girls find themselves in a situation where it looks as if even if they do pass, their GPA is going to take a serious hit.
I’d argue that given the extent to which this has been observed in recent years, ANY TIME a college student is alleging she was raped, it should AUTOMATICALLY trigger a look into her current grade standing. While this may seem unfair to real victims, and just having poor grades doesn’t prove that no crime occurred, it is something that investigator OUGHT to be bringing up with the accusers – and doing so BEFORE the university even considers whether or not to extend the deference often shown to crime victims with regard to their grading as they finish out a term.
zarko - ”Isn't this in the UK? I am surprised she didn't get a ton of money for the "assault" to pay for her studies.”
to plat Devil Advocate here, her first mistake was to wait until after she’s been asked to leave before making the claim. Chances are that had she done so BEFORE taking her exams, she would have gotten “kid glove” treatment from the university (under the idea that it would be un just to expect a victim of a violent crime to be at their academic best so soon after).
As to her eligibility for victims assistance funding, her second mistake was to try to sound more convincing by naming a book she was supposedly reading. Catching her in that lie was both fortunate (in that the book she named happened to be unavailable), and a matter of some very good police work. How often do investigators do such a thorough job of looking in to the accusers story (absent other indicators that she was lying)? This time it seems as though while they thought her quite credible, they never-the-less sought to confirm her story in some detail.
Had her lie not been unraveled quickly, it is quite likely that she would have been eligible for victims assistance funds – which she would not have had to pay back even if her lie was later uncovered.
The poor guy who was unfortunate enough to fit her (most likely deliberately vague) description caught a huge break, thanks to at least one diligent law enforcement officer doing his job properly.
"Your behaviour was utterly despicable."
I guess that means that she is not "good-looking".
Scott - "the comments sextion of the article baffled me."
When ever the Daily Mail covers an FRA (which is actually quite often), I truly enjoy reading through the comments. There will always be the lone feminist trying to refocus the dicussion to crimes by men (recieving triple-digit red down-arrows), and some white knight guy complaining that women should not be punished so harshly.
Yet, I'm always heartened by the overwhelming recognition of the very points we have been making ad nauseam on this forum [I suspect that enough people have read stuff here, and have begun taking it to heart so that they are starting to talk more openly about a subject that was all but taboo just a few short years ago].
I and even more heartened by the comments made by (those who appear to be) women:
Let me share a few of their selected thoughts:
Two years. Is this a joke? Should be 10, minimum.
- Louise, London
She got what she deserved for falsely accusing someone of rape. Maybe she should talk to women who have been raped and kept their mouths shut, then perhaps she could face reallity! Hope the man concerned gets over his ordeal and that his reputation has not been destroyed for life....
- beth,, billericay
She should serve the sentence of a man convicted of this crime.)
- Elle, UK
So she's ashamed of failing her exams, but not ashamed of falsely accusing someone of rape and then going to prison for two years. Logic is not her friend.
- Mary, Ideological Island
This is disgusting. Something should be put in place to stop people doing this, false allegation of rape is wrong and shouldn't go down lightly. What about the people who get accused? how is it fair on them to be put behind bars for no reason. It is sinful that someone would be so cruel. its people like her that bring the rest of humanity down and label us women who have been attacked.
- Laura, Fife
I'd like to know what those groups who think that a suspect should be named and shamed before being convicted have to say. Had his name been published, even if found not guilty, his name would be on record and people don't forget that. Well come on - where are you now?
- Joyce, North Yorks
It's about time that women such as Mather get jail time for this type of false accusation because the lives of the men they claim has raped them are ruined, even if found completely innocent. These men receive no protection from being named in such cases. I hope the man arrested decides to prosecute her for defamation.
- Sarah, Elland
What she has done is totally inexcusable and certainly not a mistake! A completely innocent man was arrested for rape and i'm sure left completely traumatised. She used up police resources which could have been spent on a REAL victim. How can you say she is not evil, to me that is the defination of evil, and I would rather tell my parents the truth than tell them something as devastating like claiming rape, i'm sure they were in a terrible state worrying about their daughter. The average jail term for rapists is now around 8 years, so 2 years for her just doesn't seem enough given that if it had went to trial an innocent man could have spent the next 8 years of his life in a jail for a crime he didnt commit.
- missG11, Northern Ireland
How about the poor bloke who may have been in jail serving a life sentence cos she spent too much money and didn't bother to study! women who falsely accuse men of rape should serve the same prison sentence as the man would have got if convicted!
- Sue, Cambridgeshire
as you say slwerner, the word on the street is spreading, the women have been crying wolf on rape and sexual assault and DVD for so long that now the cat is out of the bag....
Bit like the yank who went to canada with some manga, and got done for posession of "child pornography"... I guess because the cartoon girl was only a few weeks old, having been drawn in the last issue of the mag...
Gender feminists have de-facto made it so professors don't dare to flunk girl students in their classrooms, and one of the results is that you inevitably get women doctors practicing medicine, who should have failed out of medical school.
I have read that the gender-feminist women in southern california, at a high profile hospital in town, demand to see men doctors instead of women doctors.
I would assume that around the country it is the working class males and their families who are forced to be served by the women doctors, many of whom should have failed medical school, but "societal perversion" has given these girls licenses to potentially misdiagnose and kill many men and children. You see women can demand to see a male doctor, while men and children cannot, and are faced with Russian roulette when visiting the doctor.
Anon @ 10:36 -
Anybody can demand to see a doctor of any sex. Doesn't mean the request will be granted.
Amusing story, though... might be a good piece to put in arsenal. Any links?
LOLZ:
"There will always be the lone feminist trying to refocus the dicussion to crimes by men (recieving triple-digit red down-arrows), and some white knight guy complaining that women should not be punished so harshly"
And that lone guy is always writing from a computer terminal in the local grade-school...
I have been reading a lot lately about how complicit the world banking powers--banksters-- are using this false rape as yet another tool to diffuse grassroots protests and true velvet revolutions ( velvet being the softness of actual sensual exchanges between men and women united against true oppression)
I got so tired of the feminist-police state collusion that I finally did something about it:-)
www.fightthepolice.wordpress.com
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