Rape lie teenage girl is sentenced

12 April 2012

A teenage girl who lied about being raped by a taxi driver has been sentenced to a four-month detention and training order.

The 17-year-old, from Shipley, West Yorkshire, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice at a hearing last month.

District Judge David Thomas, sentencing at Bradford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, told the girl she would serve two months of her sentence in custody.

The girl made the claim against Bradford taxi driver Aftab Ahmed, 44, in January last year.

She had been drinking in the city centre with her sister and friend when they put her in his taxi and sent her home.

The judge said: "What you did had disastrous consequences so far as Mr Ahmed was concerned. He was a taxi driver who had undertaken to take you home that night because you were completely incapable of looking after yourself and your friends and sister were concerned about it.

"He couldn't find your home because you were not in a position to direct him to it and he took the trouble to ask at several places. You repaid that kindness by alleging that he had raped you.

"The consequences were disastrous for Mr Ahmed, who was arrested in front of his family."

The judge said that although the girl may have initially believed her own allegations, she continued to press ahead with them even when she realised she had been mistaken.

He said Mr Ahmed had "lost the respect and goodwill of his colleagues in the taxi trade" and to a certain extent the respect of his wife.

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