Baroness Stern and false allegations

Thanks both! I've done a FOI request to find out how many women have been prosecuted/ convicted but the home office don't track it so my request was turned down.

I've trawled he internet to find out how many women have been prosecuted in the last year and have a spreadsheet of around 25-30 women. I figure that all false allegation prosecutions at least make it into the local press as the media LOVE these cases.

I've spoken to two women who were sentenced to two years directly and the mother of another young woman who is in prison at the moment. All three sound like cases where the women were disbelieved and then discredited as a result of police prejudices or police negligence.

I am also planning to write to 6 or 7 women who are currently in prison, but am still trying to find out which prisons they are in.

Indeed.

I spoke to another mum last night whose daughter's in prison for making a false allegation. Completely heartbreaking. She said the police disbelieved her from the beginning and turned on her after about five days of investigating (she was raped by two strangers)

Unbelievable. So unbelievable it'll be hard to ever make people understand that you can report rape and end up in prison yourself.