A woman who falsely accused a teenager of raping her has been jailed for 18 months

News24xx.com -  After falsely accused a teenager, a woman named Sophie Skinner, 25, has been jailed for 18 months. At that time, she went alone to a Wetherspoons pub in Abergavenny, Wales, in June 2016 where she was seen on CCTV looking for attention from men. 

Then, she came across Damon Osborne, who was 18 at the time, and got chatting before she made her way to another bar. After two hours, the mother-of-three came across Mr Osborne again later that night while he waited for a lift home. 

She asked him if he wanted to have sex and the pair went into some nearby public toilets where CCTV caught her initiating sex. 
After making love, she forced him to have a relationship with her. But, Mr Osborne refused to have a closer relationship, because he had a girlfriend.

Then, she told him she could get him into ‘trouble’ after he refused to have a relationship with her.

Mrs Skinner went to another bar where she was again captured on CCTV ‘desperately looking for attention from others’, before returning to the Wetherspoons and telling bouncers that Mr Osborne had raped her.  Then, Mr Osborne was kept in custody for 17 hours and subjected to ‘embarrassing’ medical examinations.

Prosecutor Julian Greenwood said,  the false complaint had an ‘insidious effect’ on the confidence of the public with genuine rape complaints.

Skinner, from Woodland Crescent, Llanfoist, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice in September.

Marion Lewis, the defending, said Skinner had given no explanation about her complaint, but described her as a ‘vulnerable young woman’.

 

 

 

 

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