On June 4th, 2015 it was widely reported by many outfits that a Nigerian woman, Comfort Yinusa was facing jail term for falsely accusing two men of rape back in December of 2013. According to various reports, Yinusa, a Tube worker contacted emergency operators claiming she had been attacked outside a London bar by two men and that the men forced themselves on her. The men were subsequently picked up by the police and spent six weeks in custody while the police carried out investigation on the alleged attack.
Fortunately for the accused men a CCTV confirmed that the event never happened has the camera captured the lady and the said men chatting, laughing and having a good time at a McDonald restaurant and a mobile phone records actually proved one of the men was looking for his car at the time of the alleged attack.
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After being caught in a lie the 23-year who had a history of drug and alcohol abuse later confessed and pleaded for mercy from the judge who told her....
"You have let down genuine rape victims. Your actions have led to two innocent men being put through the humiliation of arrest and all the procedures that followed"
the judge said before sentencing her to 8 months in prison for false report, wasting 100 hours of police time and about 3,000-Pounds for forensic investigations into whether or not she was raped as alleged as well as the distress caused to her accused victims who spent hours being interrogated and six weeks in jail before they were bailed out.
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