A TEENAGER who told police she had been subjected to a horrific rape in Coventry city centre has narrowly avoided a jail sentence after she revealed she made it all up.


They spent 147 hours investigating her claim.

She alleged that a stranger had attacked her in Market Way in January.

The scene was cordoned off and guarded by officers and Sproul, of Redruth Close, Courthouse Green, was even put through a medical examination.


They interviewed a man who said he had had consensual sex with Sproul during the evening following a party.

And witnesses at the party said they had seen Sproul taking cocaine.



On February 17 they invited her back for another interview when she came clean.

Katie Simpson, prosecuting, said: “When they spoke to her about the Facebook messages she became very emotional.

“She started crying and admitted to the police that she had lied to them.

“She said she had never been raped and when they asked her why she had lied she said simply because she wanted to seek help.”




“No-one was arrested and no-one was held in custody.

“Even though I represent her I want to get across the enormity of what might have happened here.”

He added that since her arrest Sproul had turned her life around, quitting drugs, working to improve her relationship with her parents and earning a place on a college course.
