Gentlemen! Always Offer A Lady* A Lift Home...

Or else:

Alex Warren was arrested and locked up for 22 hours after Tracey Knowles made her bogus complaint, the court heard.

He had not seen her for six months after ending their relationship because he feared she was becoming too serious about him. They had, however, been in touch through a social networking website and on the night in question, met up in a bar.

Afterwards they went back to Mr Warren's house, where they had 'some very uninhibited sex indeed', Lisa Hennessy, prosecuting, told the court.

You can see where this is going, can't you?

But the next morning the atmosphere soured when Mr Warren refused to give Knowles a lift home, she said.

They parted on 'less than friendly terms' before Knowles told her boyfriend and a friend that she had been raped. When she told her parents, they contacted police.

Odd phrase, that: 'contacted police'.

You see, her father was the police:

A policeman's daughter who had a sordid one-night stand with an ex-boyfriend cried rape the morning after, a court was told.

The unfortunate Mr Warren is lucky he didn't 'fall down the stairs' at the local nick...

Mr Warren, a car firm worker, said he was 'very upset' when officers arrested him and locked him up after arriving at his home with three cars and a van.

Overkill...?

She confessed at a second interview, and is now on trial:

Knowles, 20, of South Cerney, near Cirencester, denies making a false allegation of rape with intent to pervert the course of public justice in June last year.

I'd love to know what her defence is going to be...

* Or at least, make sure she is a lady...