Although she's been released from prison, she is still serving out the remainder of her 3 year sentence under home detention. Everything about this case is infuriating and depressing. As long as the criminal record is there, she knows she has no chance of her chosen career in childcare or care of the elderly as she would never get through a Disclosure check.
From the article, it sounds like it would have been nigh on impossible to have inflicted most of her injuries on herself, yet is the belief that she fabricated the allegations to get back at other people (but not the attacker) and her injuries were self-inflicted that led to the conviction.
It sounds like the police made a complete balls up of forensic testing - not bothering to test most of the clothes she was wearing, not following up male blood found at the scene, the lab losing the sample of male pubic hair found on Layla.
And this - I mean it is just horrific.
"Layla's description of one of the attackers closely matched that of a suspect in other attacks in the area. Layla's family and a case worker who represented her believe that one of the many troubling aspects of her conviction is that while Layla is in jail, her attackers are out there, posing a threat to women."
Big thanks to everyone who is spreading the word on this. Is it possible to put links here?