62 year-old jailed for six months after claiming she was raped by two men just so she could make £6,000 insurance claim

62 year-old Wendy Willson, sparked a probe that cost Norfolk Police £70,000 with a false claim that she was raped by men with Eastern European accents. The woman was later jailed for six months after falsely claiming she was raped, beaten and robbed by two men with Eastern European accents just so she could make a £6,000 insurance claim.

They became suspicious when it emerged she had made an insurance claim for £6,000 for items stolen by her 'rapists' that she didn't mention when she reported the rape.

The claim was never paid because of 'inconsistencies in her story' and she was arrested for attempting to pervert the course of justice and fraud in April 2014.

Norfolk Police revealed that 76 officers had worked 2,244 hours on the rape inquiry between December 2013 and May 2014 at an approximate cost of £70,000.

She initially planned to deny the offences and stand trial but changed her plea to guilty at the last-minute, although she never told police why she made up the story.

Detective Superintendent Paul Durham, of the Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation Team, said: 

'Willson deliberately fabricated this extremely serious incident for her own personal financial gain.

'It diverted resources at a very demanding time for the police, but far more importantly, I believe she has done a real disservice to genuine victims of similar types of crime and to the community as a whole.

'Furthermore, she claimed the offence had been committed by two men who spoke with eastern European accents, which had the potential to cause community tensions.'

Norwich Crown Court heard how Willson told police that the men broke in through her conservatory door and forced her into her kitchen where they both raped her.

She claimed that the 'attackers', who spoke with eastern European accents, had threatened her with a knife, hit her with a metal bar and punched her in the head.

Willson made out that the punch had caused her to fall and hit her head on a kitchen unit, knocking her unconscious on December 22, 2013.

Police launched a major inquiry to try and find the attackers who had allegedly burst into her home just three days before Christmas in King's Lynn, Norfolk.

62 year-old jailed for six months after claiming she was raped by two men just so she could make £6,000 insurance claim 

source: dailymail