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An 'attention-seeking' nursery assistant who cried rape three times was jailed for four months today.
Emma Wallace, 25, was having an affair with two men, one of them married, and told them both she had been raped three times.
Wallace was depressed and drinking heavily when she made up the rape claims in May and June last year, Isleworth Crown Court in Middlesex heard.
She told her two lovers she had been raped twice by one man and a third time by another man after being set up by a friend called 'Sam'.
Wallace described the first of her fabricated ordeals during an evening of heavy drinking with one of her lovers.
Prosecuting, Anthony Heaton-Armstrong said Wallace then 'bizarrely' demanded her lover invite another one of her boyfriends over so she could also tell him about the attacks.
The group then went to the police to tell them about the 'rapes' where detectives interviewed Wallace while she was still intoxicated.
She told officers she had twice been attacked by one man she later named, and once by someone she never identified.
The complaints were a 'complete fabrication', said Mr Heaton-Armstrong.
Jurors were told that the police made it clear to Wallace that they were 'quite sceptical' about her story. However, the alleged rapist - who provided an alibi - was interviewed under caution.
Mr Heaton-Armstrong said other potential witnesses were also interviewed, with 'most making it clear the defendant's complaints were a tissue of lies and maliciously motivated'.
When officers were convinced that her complaints were in fact lies, they gave her the option of being cautioned. Wallace refused and was later arrested.
Defending, Andrew Turton said Wallace had suffered depression after her parents divorced and had suffered relationship problems since she was at school
He said: 'All the material not only shows that she was a troubled and vulnerable person at the time she made these allegations, but she also had fragile mental and physical health.
'She at times can be gullible, she can be naive. She is attention seeking and can be prone to exaggeration.
'These are character traits which must have some relevance to the matter before the court.'
Wallace, of Chertsey, Surrey was jailed for four months.
Sentencing, Judge Anna Guggenheim told her: 'The courts always see a false allegation of rape as a particularly serious example of this type of offence.
'It appears to me, this being an offence against public justice that causes such a degree of harm - that all genuine victims of rape who face such difficulty in securing convictions against their attackers - that the offence is so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence is justified.
'I take into consideration that this case distinguishes itself by the fact these allegations were wholly fictitious.
'This wasn't a situation where a man was placed in the extremely difficult position of having to convince a jury that a consensual act of sexual intercourse had taken place.
'The man named by Emma Wallace was fortunately able to provide a convincing alibi.
'She was seeking attention in circumstances where she was extremely unhappy about a number of aspects of her life'
Wallace, of Chertsey, Surrey, pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice at an earlier hearing. She confessed to lying only moments before she was due to stand trial.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225823/Nursery-assistant-cried-rape-times-jailed.html#ixzz0W6RD2rVo
Emma Wallace, 25, was having an affair with two men, one of them married, and told them both she had been raped three times.
Wallace was depressed and drinking heavily when she made up the rape claims in May and June last year, Isleworth Crown Court in Middlesex heard.
She told her two lovers she had been raped twice by one man and a third time by another man after being set up by a friend called 'Sam'.
Wallace described the first of her fabricated ordeals during an evening of heavy drinking with one of her lovers.
Prosecuting, Anthony Heaton-Armstrong said Wallace then 'bizarrely' demanded her lover invite another one of her boyfriends over so she could also tell him about the attacks.
The group then went to the police to tell them about the 'rapes' where detectives interviewed Wallace while she was still intoxicated.
She told officers she had twice been attacked by one man she later named, and once by someone she never identified.
The complaints were a 'complete fabrication', said Mr Heaton-Armstrong.
Jurors were told that the police made it clear to Wallace that they were 'quite sceptical' about her story. However, the alleged rapist - who provided an alibi - was interviewed under caution.
Mr Heaton-Armstrong said other potential witnesses were also interviewed, with 'most making it clear the defendant's complaints were a tissue of lies and maliciously motivated'.
When officers were convinced that her complaints were in fact lies, they gave her the option of being cautioned. Wallace refused and was later arrested.
Defending, Andrew Turton said Wallace had suffered depression after her parents divorced and had suffered relationship problems since she was at school
He said: 'All the material not only shows that she was a troubled and vulnerable person at the time she made these allegations, but she also had fragile mental and physical health.
'She at times can be gullible, she can be naive. She is attention seeking and can be prone to exaggeration.
'These are character traits which must have some relevance to the matter before the court.'
Wallace, of Chertsey, Surrey was jailed for four months.
Sentencing, Judge Anna Guggenheim told her: 'The courts always see a false allegation of rape as a particularly serious example of this type of offence.
'It appears to me, this being an offence against public justice that causes such a degree of harm - that all genuine victims of rape who face such difficulty in securing convictions against their attackers - that the offence is so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence is justified.
'I take into consideration that this case distinguishes itself by the fact these allegations were wholly fictitious.
'This wasn't a situation where a man was placed in the extremely difficult position of having to convince a jury that a consensual act of sexual intercourse had taken place.
'The man named by Emma Wallace was fortunately able to provide a convincing alibi.
'She was seeking attention in circumstances where she was extremely unhappy about a number of aspects of her life'
Wallace, of Chertsey, Surrey, pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice at an earlier hearing. She confessed to lying only moments before she was due to stand trial.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225823/Nursery-assistant-cried-rape-times-jailed.html#ixzz0W6RD2rVo
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