Teh One Who Knocks
06-09-2015, 11:23 AM
Ollie McAteer for Metro.co.uk
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A woman is facing jail for sparking a police investigation when she falsely claimed she had been raped on a train.
Karen Farmer, 35, told officers that a man had sexually assaulted her while travelling from Glasgow to Blantyre.
She had in fact consented to having sex with the man on a first date, but she got upset after he made an excuse and ran off.
Farmer later alleged the 23-year-old she had been intimate with was ‘aggressive and controlling’ which lead to him being detained at his work and quizzed by police.
Farmer, from Paisley pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to falsely claim she was raped and causing police to devote their time and services in an investigation she knew was false.
Procurator fiscal depute Collette Fallon said that Farmer was under the impression that she would be staying the night with the man in August 2012.
While on the rain, they were captured on CCTV ‘engaging in consensual sex’.
Miss Fallon said that when they got off of the train at Blantyre, the man told Farmer he needed the toilet but ran away from the station.
Farmer, visibly upset, looked for him and eventually asked to borrow someone’s phone to text her date.
In the message she said: ‘Thanks for the night that I paid for, for you to leave me in Blantyre. For you to use me like that has made me feel so low. Trying to find my way back home, I don’t know how to get there.’
Miss Fallon said: ‘The accused boarded the train back to Glasgow, during the course of the journey she knocked on the driver’s cab door and the driver of the train opened the door and saw the accused was upset and crying.
‘She told him she had been assaulted but did not specify further.’
When she got to Central station she told police she had been sexually assaulted on the train and taken to a police station.
Defence counsel Louise Arrol said: ‘She has very little recollection of events that evening.
‘There was reference to her being intoxicated. When she viewed the CCTV she realised her recollection was not what she thought it was.’
She will be sentenced next month.
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A woman is facing jail for sparking a police investigation when she falsely claimed she had been raped on a train.
Karen Farmer, 35, told officers that a man had sexually assaulted her while travelling from Glasgow to Blantyre.
She had in fact consented to having sex with the man on a first date, but she got upset after he made an excuse and ran off.
Farmer later alleged the 23-year-old she had been intimate with was ‘aggressive and controlling’ which lead to him being detained at his work and quizzed by police.
Farmer, from Paisley pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to falsely claim she was raped and causing police to devote their time and services in an investigation she knew was false.
Procurator fiscal depute Collette Fallon said that Farmer was under the impression that she would be staying the night with the man in August 2012.
While on the rain, they were captured on CCTV ‘engaging in consensual sex’.
Miss Fallon said that when they got off of the train at Blantyre, the man told Farmer he needed the toilet but ran away from the station.
Farmer, visibly upset, looked for him and eventually asked to borrow someone’s phone to text her date.
In the message she said: ‘Thanks for the night that I paid for, for you to leave me in Blantyre. For you to use me like that has made me feel so low. Trying to find my way back home, I don’t know how to get there.’
Miss Fallon said: ‘The accused boarded the train back to Glasgow, during the course of the journey she knocked on the driver’s cab door and the driver of the train opened the door and saw the accused was upset and crying.
‘She told him she had been assaulted but did not specify further.’
When she got to Central station she told police she had been sexually assaulted on the train and taken to a police station.
Defence counsel Louise Arrol said: ‘She has very little recollection of events that evening.
‘There was reference to her being intoxicated. When she viewed the CCTV she realised her recollection was not what she thought it was.’
She will be sentenced next month.