A student has been landed a two-year prison sentence, after she claimed that she allegedly suffered two attacks in five months apart by the same man.
A student has been landed a two-year prison sentence, after she allegedly claimed that she suffered two rape attacks in five months by the same man.
The Edinburgh Sheriff Court reportedly found that the 21-year-old Naima Shereen Mirza actually had lied to re-sit an A-level after getting a low mark.
When she reported the rapes she even named a man from Perth, central Scotland. But the Police knew that the man she accused was already in jail at the time the alleged attacks took place.
Mirza, then a student at Edinburgh Academy, denied that she’d lied to police between May 15, 2012 and April 2, 2013.
But a jury found her guilty at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
A police officer interviewing her said: "I had concerns about her hiding her face and running out of the room", she said.
"I had the impression it was very well planned. I didn’t see any real distress or anything like that."
She eventually wrote to one of the officers in which she confessed: "Nothing happened. I went to the park and made it up. I wanted another year at school to get to Strathclyde University."
She needed an A in chemistry to get to the university but failed to get it so wanted to do a re-sit.
