False claims mum jailed for 4 years (From Daily Echo)

Allegra Frazer jailed for four years after makring false harrassment claims

1:00pm Monday 28th June 2010 in News By Clare Kennedy, Health Reporter

A WOMAN who falsely claimed she was being harassed by a security guard she had met at college has been handed a four-year jail sentence.

Lying Allegra Frazer, 31, pictured, repeatedly told police that Kieran Awcock was stalking her and leaving threatening notes at her home and on her car.

She also alleged that he had left an empty can of petrol on her doorstep, burgled her house and threatened her father in hospital.

However six months after she first started making the complaints police became suspicious that she was making it up.

When they told her there was no evidence to substantiate her claims she told them: “Do I have to get hurt before you take them seriously?”

Just 36 hours later, she contacted them again, claiming Mr Awcock’s half brother Jamie White, had attacked her and slashed her with a Stanley knife.

But police inquiries found there was no way the 17-year-old could have been involved and believed the injuries were self-inflicted.

They set up a hidden video camera outside Frazer’s home in Vanguard Road, Bitterne, Southampton, and when she later complained to police that Mr Awcock had again left threatening notes in her letter box, the footage revealed he had done no such thing.

A jury found Frazer guilty of two counts of perverting the course of justice between June 2008 and January 2009.

Matthew Jewell, defending, said Frazer had “pretty much lost everything” since her conviction as her child has been put up for adoption and she has lost her home.

The court heard how the pair had met while Frazer was a student at Southampton City College where Mr Awcock was a security guard.

They became friends but he said he never wanted a sexual relationship and had never threatened her.

She had got him to join the Territorial Army but then subsequently ensured his dismissal from the organisation before beginning her campaign against him.

Recorder Llewellyn Sellick, sitting at Southampton Crown Court, said: “No-one knows why you carried out this sustained lengthy campaign against Mr Awcock or why you accused his younger brother of wounding with intent.

“These offences are extremely serious. This type of offence undermines the whole justice system.

“You made these wholly false allegations against two wholly innocent men.”

He told Frazer that she would serve half of her prison sentence before being released on licence.