Lesbian accuses innocent stranger of rape to win back lover

Category people | Permalink | 26. March 2007

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A lesbian falsely accused a complete stranger of rape in a bizarre bid to win back her former lover.

Zoe Davydaitis, picked the innocent man from a police line-up even though he had broken his back in eight places and had to wear a body brace.

Her false accusation led to Phillip Young being charged with rape, despite his protestations that his horrific injuries from an accident meant the attack was impossible. He went on to receive death threats, was assaulted and eventually attempted suicide.

But on Friday a court heard Davydaitis was a “self-centred attention seeker” as she was jailed for 18 months after admitting perverting the course of justice.

Mr Young’s ordeal began in July 2004, when Davydaitis, 24, claimed to have been brutally raped on a piece of waste ground in Bedford as she walked her dog.

In a 17-page statement she gave a detailed account of her assailant and the attack.

Detectives immediately launched a major hunt for her attacker and put out his description and an appeal in local papers and posters.

At the same time Mr Young, 49, was recovering from a horrific fall. That spring he had broken his spine in eight places after falling off the roof of his third floor flat while trying to get through a skylight after locking himself out.

Surgeons inserted three metal rods into his back, held in place by 96 screws, and he had to wear a body brace and walk with crutches.

However he was arrested after a member of the public noticed his description fitted that of the rapist.

After he was questioned, Davydaitis picked him out from a picture ID parade and despite his protestations that it would have been physically impossible for him to have raped her, the Crown Prosecution Service decided he should be charged.

Source and More : http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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