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  • Leeds student jailed for false sex attack allegation after taxi driver refused kebab-soaked £10 note

    Talk about playing the system !! this particular liar is Criminology student !!!

    Leeds student jailed for false sex attack allegation after taxi driver refused kebab-soaked £10 note

    http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.u...note-1-8759797

    A Criminology student has been jailed for making a false sex attack report to police against a taxi driver after a row over a ten pound fare.

    A court heard Sophie Pointon told police officers she had been sexually assaulted in the back of the cab she had been picked up in after a night out in Leeds city centre.

    Pointon, 22, rang police in the early hours of April 22 this then continued the deception by signing a statement giving an account of the attack.

    Leeds Crown Court heard the driver, a father-of-five, was tracked down and kept in custody for six hours. He was also unable to work for four weeks as a result of the claim.

    Kate Bisset, prosecuting, said the driver was interviewed and said he could recall Pointon being “extremely drunk” when she got into his car holding a kebab.

    He said Pointon threw a ten pound not at him when they reached the Hyde Park area but he refused to accept it as it was covered in oil from the kebab.

    The driver said Pointon then became abusive and ran around the car opening doors. The prosecutor said: “He did not think much of it at the time because such incident with people who are intoxicated are not unusual.”

    A recording of a conversation between the driver and a phone operator at his taxi office supported his account.

    The court heard a GPS tracker fitted to the car also revealed Pointon’s description of the taxi journey to be untrue.

    Pointon broke down in tears and asked if she could drop the charges when her account was challenged by police.

    She pleaded guilty to perverting justice.

    Denise Breen-Lawton, mitigating, said Pointon, of Corkland Road, Manchester, had been studying in Leeds at the time. She said her hopes of becoming a police officer were now ruined.


    She was jailed for 16 months. Judge Christopher Batty told her: “Your malicious complaint has done a huge disservice to those seeking justice through the police and courts.”

    The driver described in a statement how the false allegation had caused him to suffer from stress.
    Last edited by soulbug; 19 September 2017, 02:31 PM.

  • #2
    So rare to see them found out and prosecuted but always makes me happy...

    Here we see a typical example of false allegations being used as a weapon at the drop of a hat, over a tenner. The "default position" as Paul Gambaccini called it.

    This is the umpteenth taxi driver that was lucky there was some hard evidence of his innocence or she might have gotten away with it.

    Hopefully a record of perverting the course of justice will prevent her from working for the police but I have my doubts!
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    • #3
      Was this the one who complained that she would not be able to fulfil her dream of being a police officer with this conviction?
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      • #4
        That's the one RF - Perhaps she thought perverting the course of justice would propel her up the career ladder.

        Imagine a police officer being a nasty liar!
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        To join secure closed forums for those falsely accused of historical sex offences visit https://pafaaorg.wordpress.com/


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        • #5
          Originally posted by Peter1975 View Post
          That's the one RF - Perhaps she thought perverting the course of justice would propel her up the career ladder.

          Imagine a police officer being a nasty liar!

          Well yes! Beggars belief doesn't it! Rather like it beggars belief that the police will investigate both sides of an allegation of sexual abuse, you know, to get the the truth of the matter.......

          Last edited by Rights Fighter; 19 September 2017, 05:18 PM.
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          • #6
            i was logging on to post this article but looks like i was beaten to it...

            poor chap!

            Bob

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            • #7
              Also beaten to it

              Its good to see the CPS actually prosecuting in one of these cases. Obviously it was made easy for them because she retracted the allegations.

              What we need is to see them investigating and prosecuting when things are not made so simple for them. There are blatant liars and fantasists out there who need to know that the law can and will catch up with them

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              • #8
                It is good to see these prosecutions take place, even though they are progressed in a low proportion of cases of false allegations.

                However, there is a danger that accusers who later regret having made false allegations will be put off 'fessing up' to them by the threat of being prosecuted and jailed. They will know that, if they hold tight and persist in their false allegations, there is every likelihood of getting away with their lies; they are unlikely to be prosecuted unless they make it easy for the CPS by confessing.

                This could work against victims of false accusations by forcing us through a trial that would, othrrwise, not take place.

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