article_snippet: Judge Jonathan Fuller QC said: ‘You made a determined and prolonged attempt to weave a picture of deceit to further your ends and you were prepared to make wholly false allegations of attempted rape against these innocent young men.
article_snippet: The impact on these victims cannot be understated and false allegations of rape and attempted rape can have dreadful consequences.
article_snippet: Every occasion of a proved false allegation has an insidious effect on public confidence, sometimes allowing doubts to creep into when one shouldn’t exist.
article_snippet: Your offence has a corrosive effect on criminal justice.
article_snippet: the incident has had a profound effect on my job.
article_snippet: ‘The lasting effect of this case will follow me for many years and perhaps the rest of my life.