GIRL JAILED FOR CRYING RAPE

Pretty sales assistant Kirsty Sowden was jailed for crying rape in shame over her kinky sex session with an older stranger. Kirsty, 21, had met her “victim” online after advertising herself as a sexy “BDSM Princess” - standing for Bondage, Domination and Sadomasochism - on the internet.

The John Lewis store girl voluntarily enjoyed a bondage sex session the man; she agreed to wear a leather dog lead and collar and to be spanked.

But guilt-ridden Sowden - who was trying for a BABY with her boyfriend at the time - regretted the romp afterwards and tearfully claimed she had been raped.

Sowden contacted the police after leaving businessman Andrew Boarer’s flat, having had full sex.

She told officers she had been raped in a park area by a baldling stranger in his 40s who grabbed her as she left a gym at Cascades in Gravesend, Kent.

Police arrested a man based on her description but soon realised he was totally innocent.

Separately, officers traced DNA samples which led them to the actual man Sowden had had sex with. A horrified Mr Boarer was arrested at work in front of his boss.

The innocent man, who was going through a divorce at the time, was taken away in handcuffs and questioned then remanded in custody on the strength of the false claims.

It was only while he was behind bars that Sowden’s lies came to light, as police were able to uncover internet exchanges between the pair.

Sowden, of, Northfleet, Kent was jailed for 14 months at Maidstone Crown Court after admitting perverting the course of justice by trying to disguise her sex session as rape.

The court heard the £14,000 investigation had wasted a staggering 376 hours of police time.

Jailing Sowden, Judge Philip Statman said: “I see little sign of genuine remorse from you or, indeed, any real understanding of just how serious your actions have been.

“Perverting the course of justice undermines justice and justice must be upheld. Rape is a dreadful crime and false allegations of rape undermine the plight of genuine victims.

“The impact on your victim has been considerable.

“What occurred in the privacy of his home, however much certain members of the community may find that reprehensible, has been made public.

“He has had to move on in work and been made the subject of ridicule. The police inquiry involved many officers and many, many hours of police time at considerable expense.

“You are a highly intelligent, well-educated young woman and at the time you were in good, full-time employment but there is no doubt this offence passes the custody threshold.”

The court heard the man had contacted Sowden after seeing her online ad in March last year and arranged for her to go to his flat in Maidstone and be dominated.

Sowden agreed to strip off “within five seconds of her arrival” and the pair indulged in various sex acts.

Mr Boarer told the court: "Towards the end, she was lying on the bed and she said she did not want to do it anymore. She said her boyfriend would kill her if he found out.

“Also, they were trying for a baby and she felt guilty. She left. The next thing was I was arrested at work. They arrested me in front of everyone.”

Prosecutor Catherine Donnelly told Sowden: ”You are not just a liar, you can tell detailed lies when you put your mind to it.”

The judge added: “It is right to observe that initially an individual was detained and arrested for rape. He was detained, happily, only for a short period of time.

“Thereafter, because police had DNA available to them a DNA hit was traced to a second man, and he was arrested in front of a large number of work colleagues.

“He was held in police custody and remained on bail for a number of weeks. He fully cooperated with the police and it is fortuitous that he did so.

“It meant the police were able to reveal precisely what occurred on the internet sites.”

Malcolm Gilbert, who works for rape charity Family Matters, yesterday condemned Sowden’s actions.

He said:”We condemn any woman, or indeed any man, who makes false allegations because of the harm to genuine rape victims, to undermine the whole business of rape.

“They should be pursued by the police in the way it has been here.”

Detective Constable Richard Dorey said: ”The sentence of 14 months in jail is a fair sentence. It should stop people making unfounded allegations and is a very serious sentence for someone so young.

“She was maintaining, up to the last minute, parts of the account. She didn’t seem to want to be completely truthful. She is paying the penalty for that now”. - www.thesun.co.uk