Four students spent nearly three days behind bars as a result of the convincing injuries Leyla Ibrahim inflicted on herself, with one of the suspects attempting to kill himself.Yup, fake rape cases are like buses. No sooner have I written up one, than another hoves into view.
And the reason for this one?
It emerged Ibrahim invented the attack after a row with a male friend when he refused to lend her the money for a taxi home after a night out.Lovely...
Although at least in this case, she didn't have Shannon Taylor's dubious history to tip the police off. Indeed, she put a hell of a lot of effort into it:
Deciding she ‘wanted to teach people a lesson’, a court heard she cut and tore the blue frilly dress she was wearing as well as her black leggings and bra, leaving her breasts partially exposed.Someone's watched a lot of 'CSI'..!
She also hacked off clumps of her own hair, gave herself a black eye and a suspected broken cheekbone, scratched her breasts and legs and finally left one of her shoes at the scene of the supposed attack.
And in this story, the CPS seem to have been roused from their torpor and actually charged her:
Last night, however, the former children’s holiday rep was behind bars after being convicted of perverting the course of justice.Perhaps, as others have suggested in the comments to these posts, it should be equivalent to the sentence the four students would have got?
She wept as the judge denied her bail, telling her a prison term ‘of some length’ was inevitable for ‘wickedly fabricating a grave crime’ which had caused ‘countless anguish’.
"Perhaps, as others have suggested in the comments to these posts, it should be equivalent to the sentence the four students would have got?"
ReplyDeleteYep, absolutely. The punishment should fit the harm the perverter, if that's the word, attempts to inflict. Perhaps this would rebalance the risk vs reward of these sort of things. Frankly I think the four innocent men were VERY lucky here. On another day or with another police force it would have been you're guilty, case closed. I don't often say this but good job police, well done.
Also I see she moved here from Libya, deport the beeech on release from prison IMO.
"The punishment should fit the harm the perverter, if that's the word, attempts to inflict. "
ReplyDeleteIt would be fair, wouldn't it? Not to mention just.
"Frankly I think the four innocent men were VERY lucky here. On another day or with another police force it would have been you're guilty, case closed."
Yup. As we just saw with the Shannon Taylor case, where those same misgivings were ignored.