For Wasting Police Time And Wrongfully Accusing Someone Of Rape, Teen Gets Convicted
18-year-old Hannah Sandover has gotten herself in trouble with the authorities after she falsely claimed her ex-boyfriend had raped her when they split up.
Reports reveal that she has been convicted of wasting police time.
Sandover, lied to a friend that her ex, also 18, had spiked her water bottle and forced himself on her in the back of the car after he refused to get back with her. She said this because “she wanted to get back at him”.
Sandover claimed she got into the back of a car to stretch out as she had stomach pains before her former boyfriend jumped on her. She even claimed to cops one of her friends was sitting in the front of the car, but was listening to music through headphones so didn’t know what was going on.
As a result of her lies, her ex was kept in police custody for five-and-a-half hours and was forced to undergo intimate tests. But her web of lies began to unravel after she was taken to a clinic for an intimate examination and she started to change her story. When her family began to question her bogus claims, Sandover admitted she made it all up and that she and her ex had had consensual sex.
She has now admitted a charge of wasting police time at Salisbury Magistrates’ Court, Wiltshire.
Prosecutor Ryan Seneviratine said: “Miss Sandover is extremely lucky that she didn’t get charged with perverting the course of justice, only due to her age and the fact she has no previous convictions.
“Her ex-boyfriend has said his confidence in approaching girls has been completely ruined. She had numerous times to say the allegations were lies, but she didn’t.”
Her lawyer Moses Tawo said Sandover was “too scared to admit she had been lying”.
He added: “The only person she told the story to was her friend, she never meant for it to be taken to the police and couldn’t tell me why she had told lies. She has faced some health issues, and when the only relationship she had with anyone ended, she panicked, which she now shows remorse for.”
Sandover will be sentenced on June 8.
