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Hutt News
February 3, 2004
Camera catches out false rape complaint
One of Hutt City's street cameras has helped reveal
that a rape complaint was a lie.
A woman called into the Lower Hutt Police Station late one night to report
she had been raped. She claimed she'd been sitting in a bus shelter in Bunny Street when
a man dragged her away and attacked her.
There are CCTV cameras in Bunny
Street, so police called up images recorded at
the time the woman said the offence had happened.
Despite the woman saying there was no one around at the time, there were in
fact plenty of people in Bunny
St at that hour. However she was not one of
them.
When presented with the proof, the woman admitted she had made the story up.
"She did it to get attention," a police spokesperson said.
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