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| Detention for rape lie teenager | Detention for rape lie teenager |
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| A 17-year-old girl who lied about being raped by a taxi driver has been sentenced to four month's detention. | |
| The teenager, from Shipley, West Yorkshire, made the claim against Aftab Ahmed, 44, in January last year. She cannot be named for legal reasons. | |
| She was sentenced at Bradford Magistrates' Court after admitting perverting the course of justice at a hearing last month. | |
| Mr Ahmed, from Allerton, Bradford, said the girl had "destroyed" his life. | |
| District Judge David Thomas told the girl she would serve two months of her sentence, a detention and training order, in custody. | |
| She had been drinking in the city centre with her sister and friend when they put her in Mr Ahmed's taxi and sent her home. | |
| The incident had spiralled out of control and I was concerned about what would happen if I said it had not happened at all Teenager's statement | The incident had spiralled out of control and I was concerned about what would happen if I said it had not happened at all Teenager's statement |
| The 17-year-old was sick six times on the way home and had trouble directing him. | |
| When she returned home the girl called police and took them to a location on Baildon Moor where she said the rape had taken place. | |
| The judge told her: "What you did had disastrous consequences so far as Mr Ahmed was concerned. | |
| "He couldn't find your home because you were not in a position to direct him to it and he took the trouble to ask at several places. | "He couldn't find your home because you were not in a position to direct him to it and he took the trouble to ask at several places. |
| "You repaid that kindness by alleging that he had raped you. | "You repaid that kindness by alleging that he had raped you. |
| "The consequences were disastrous for Mr Ahmed, who was arrested in front of his family." | "The consequences were disastrous for Mr Ahmed, who was arrested in front of his family." |
| In a statement read out to the court, she said: "I was extremely disorientated in the taxi. I arrived home. At that stage I seriously believed I had experienced a genuine sexual assault. | In a statement read out to the court, she said: "I was extremely disorientated in the taxi. I arrived home. At that stage I seriously believed I had experienced a genuine sexual assault. |
| "I returned to normality and realised it had not taken place. By that time the police were on their way. | "I returned to normality and realised it had not taken place. By that time the police were on their way. |
| "The incident had spiralled out of control and I was concerned about what would happen if I said it had not happened at all." | "The incident had spiralled out of control and I was concerned about what would happen if I said it had not happened at all." |
| 'Never doubted' | |
| After the sentencing, Mr Ahmed said the girl should be "named and shamed". | |
| He said: "I can't imagine that the person who destroyed a whole family got only two months. | |
| "She had destroyed my family life, my social life, and she has destroyed me economically. She destroyed my credibility. | |
| "There is also the effect on my children. She should be named and shamed." | |
| Mr Ahmed's wife Amber, 32, said she "never doubted him for a moment". | |
| She added: "I thought she would have got more for what she put me and my family through. I can't tell you how horrified I am." | |
| Mr Ahmed, who has 11-year-old twin daughters, no longer works at night for fear of further allegations and he has had to put his house on the market. |