A piece posted on the Gloucestershire police website. An extract:

Detectives investigating two separate allegations, one of rape and another of sexual assault by penetration in July last year, have confirmed that these did not take place.

Both of the reports alleged that the assaults were committed by strangers, however following investigations it became clear that the incidents did not happen.

Acting Detective Inspector Faye Satchwell-Bennett said false reports are rare…

Hah! It has long been known by police that far from being rare, a considerable majority of the rape allegations made to them are false. With the use of just two government statistics, William Collins calculates that 77% of rape allegations made to the police in the UK are false. The calculation is to be found in his book The Empathy Gap: Male Disadvantages and the Mechanisms of Their Neglect (2019). The ebook retails for under £5.00.

Another extract:

In another incident police were called to a report of a woman in her 20s that had been raped in the area of The Brewery in Cheltenham on Saturday 23 July.

A public appeal for information was issued for one of the incidents, and a statement was provided to local media who had asked about a police cordon in relation to the other report.

Following extensive enquiries by the Constabulary’s Rape and Serious Sexual Offences team, a teenage girl involved in the Gloucester report was cautioned for wasting police time. [J4MB: Cautioned, eh? The police can be so brutal, sometimes.]

The investigating officer, DC Sandra Mulrooney, said: “The girl involved was remorseful and understood the damaging consequences of her actions – she was relieved to admit the truth during a police interview.”

A boy was initially arrested in connection with the Cheltenham rape allegation, however CCTV evidence later showed that no rape took place. No further police action was taken against the woman, [J4MB: Well, obviously!] and the boy who had been released on police bail will face no further police action.

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