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She Accused A Taxi Driver Of Rape. Tracking Data Proved It Didn’t Happen.

Ashe Schow
She Accused A Taxi Driver Of Rape. Tracking Data Proved It Didn’t Happen.
Laura Hood, 27, falsely accused a taxi driver of raping her in January 2017.

A British woman who claimed she was raped by a taxi driver was found guilty of perverting the course of justice and sentenced to three years in prison for making her false accusation.

Laura Hood, 27, claimed in 2017 that a taxi driver attacked her and raped her in the back of his cab. On the night of the alleged attack, Hood “hysterically told her mother she had been sexually assaulted and then informed police she was attacked in the back of a black cab in a side-street,” according to British news outlet ITV.

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