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Wife says H raped her 6 times (via 999 call)
Retracts so CPS would drop charges (maintains that allegation was true)
CPS want to go ahead any way
Wife retracts completely saying she made it up
Police say they will bring charges against her for false allegations
Wife then says she told the truth the first time - he had raped her but he/his family made her recant
Wife gets jailed for 8 months
How is that justice? It does sound like a mess of a relationship/life but surely there was nothing to be gained by jailing her? And life does get messy, it's not neat and clear cut all the time.
If anything it will put wives/gfs of reporting relationship rapes as if they subsequently recant they could get jailed.
I think that the Judge was pee'd off with the to-ing and fro-ing and might well have jailed her for false retraction rather than the false allegation if it had been proved the H raped her.
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