LYING Jemma Beale, 25, made false rape and sex assault claims against 15 different men — and sent an innocent man to jail for seven years, a court was told.
Beale made allegations over three years but they were “grotesque inventions”, jurors heard.
She claimed she was attacked at a pub and outside her home, and gang raped in the street.
Beale said she was raped by nine men and sexually assaulted by six. All but one were strangers.
Beale’s first allegation was against Mahad Cassim, who had given her a lift home after a night out. He was charged with rape and jailed for seven years.
But prosecutor John Price QC said: “That was a wrongful conviction. Mahad Cassim was innocent.
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“The person responsible for the grave injustice was the defendant, through her false allegation and perjured evidence. She maintains that falsity still.”
Mr Price said it was “inherently improbable” Beale was attacked so many times and so frequently.
He added: “Each of her reports was entirely false.”
In July 2012 Beale claimed she was sexually assaulted by four men with a piece of barbed wire in an alley.
But jurors were shown CCTV of her walking home alone that night. Her injuries were self-inflicted, the court was told.
In September 2013 Beale reported a sex assault by two men outside her home. Neither was ever identified.
Two months later, she reported a gang rape by eight men.
One of those she identified, Luke Williams, was held on bail for two years.
The person responsible for the grave injustice was the defendant, through her false allegation and perjured evidence. She maintains that falsity still
Prosecutor John Price QC
Mr Williams yesterday told how Beale had invited him to have sex with her at a party while her girlfriend was downstairs.
He said: “I felt uncomfortable. I didn’t want her to feel rejected but I really didn’t find her attractive.”
Beale, of Bedfont, West London, denies perjury and perverting justice.
The trial at Southwark crown court continues.
How common are false rape allegations?
In 2011 the Crown Prosecution Service published a landmark study into so-called false allegations of rape and domestic violence. The report was headed by Keir Starmer, the then-head of the CPS.
The findings of the public prosecution agency showed that false allegations of rape and domestic violence are much rarer than previously thought.
During the 17-month period between January 2011 and May 2012, the CPS reviewed 121 cases of allegedly false accusations of rape and other sexual assaults. Of those, 35 cases resulted in prosecutions of false allegations compared to a total of 5,651 prosecutions of rape.
The study found that many of the false allegations were made by vulnerable people or those with mental health problems and, in a handful of cases, the person alleged to have made the false report had been the victim of some form of abuse.