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Criminology student, 22, who falsely cried rape at taxi driver is jailed for 16 months
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2017-09-20 at 12:47 AM UTChttps://www.yahoo.com/news/criminology-student-22-falsely-cried-rape-taxi-driver-jailed-16-months-145504913.html
A criminology student who lied about being raped by a taxi driver after he refused to accept a kebab-soaked tenner has been jailed for 16 months.
Wannabe cop Sophie Poniton told police officers that 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 the cops in the early hours of Aril 22 this year 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.
Jailing Pointon 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.
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2017-09-20 at 12:49 AM UTCShe's kinda hot too. I'd definitely give her my kebab.
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2017-09-20 at 12:53 AM UTCIt's good to see that some of these cunts that have falsely cried rape are finally getting prosecuted for it. That shit can permanently ruin a person's life. This is at least the second case of this I've seen prosecuted recently.
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2017-09-20 at 1:34 AM UTCAnd a criminology student to top it off. Good lord. Hydro once threatened me with this and I immediately made sure to get evidence.
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2017-09-20 at 1:46 AM UTC
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2017-09-20 at 2:18 AM UTC
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2017-09-20 at 2:19 AM UTCis "i have money" your only pickup line? i cant imagine how brain damaged a woman would have to be to be inseminated by you
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2017-09-20 at 2:20 AM UTCthere should be a law where if someone accuses someone of a crime and its determined the accuser is flat out lying the accuse-ee gets to actually commit the crime while the accuser gets the punishment.
rape...theft...assault...battery...rape... -
2017-09-20 at 2:21 AM UTC
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2017-09-20 at 2:26 AM UTC
Originally posted by matrix is "i have money" your only pickup line? i cant imagine how brain damaged a woman would have to be to be inseminated by you
Sploo, you couldn't get laid in a morgue.
Bonus reminder that sploo shit his pants with terror when a girl called the cops on him for sending her autistic death and rape threats, lmao.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-09-20 at 2:29 AM UTC
Originally posted by Captain Falcon Sploo, you couldn't get laid in a morgue.
Bonus reminder that sploo shit his pants with terror when a girl called the cops on him for sending her autistic death and rape threats, lmao.
off topic ban? and just to be straight i'll have you know i've slept with corpses on several occasions -
2017-09-20 at 2:30 AM UTC
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2017-09-20 at 2:55 AM UTCreported for off topic
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2017-09-20 at 2:55 AM UTCGood.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-09-20 at 7:11 AM UTCFuck You whore
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