Women’s right to choose extends to destroying men’s lives then.
Source: Daily Mail
A woman who cried rape was jailed yesterday after her false claim resulted in an innocent man being arrested and undergoing a ‘humiliating’ ordeal.
In a childish attempt to make her family feel guilty following an argument, Kerry Saunders claimed she had been sexually assaulted after a night out.
She was overheard making the allegation by a passing police community support officer.
Within hours, student Oladepo Otesile was picked up by police near the scene of the alleged attack and held in a cell for 22 hours, where he was interviewed under caution and given an intimate forensic examination.
Samples of his DNA, mugshots and fingerprints were also taken.
Only after Mr Otesile was bailed to return for an identity parade did the alleged ‘victim’ contact police to admit the allegations were false.
Sentencing 26-year-old Saunders to a year imprisonment, the judge said ‘it was something she brought on herself’ and branded her actions ‘ghastly’.
As well as depriving Mr Otesile of his liberty, her false claims cost police £4,500 in wasted time, Basildon Crown Court in Essex heard.
Judge Michael Brooke QC, said the victim had been put through an unnecessary ordeal. Read the rest of this entry »
