Bernadette Kore, a 29-year-old mother, was sick of her husband and decided to get rid of him somehow. Although her reasoning seems a bit confused here, perhaps because she was drunk, she decided that making up a story about a stranger rape might do the trick, so she invented a violent, gruesome rape and told her story to police.
She said she had been attacked at a nightclub by two men, and although she didn’t name anyone, a couple guys were later arrested. As her lie grew, the young men went through the customary hell until she finally admitted she’d made the entire thing up.
Finally, she ended up being sentenced to 18 months by Judge Alasdair Darroch, who chided her for causing serious damage to the lives of two innocent young men.
In contrast to the US, British women are actually being sentenced for making false rape claims, which have become enough of a scandal that the new government is considering granting anonymity to the accused. “Victims” have been granted anonymity for 35 years now, which seems to give women the sense that they can use rape allegations as a weapon against men, including innocent ones.
Feminists are strongly against anonymity for the accused, but support anonymity for accusers. In this sense, they advocate punishment before conviction, because a public rape investigation is extremely traumatic for men, whether guilty or innocent.
