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Wed 10 Oct 2008Suspended jail term for taxi passenger's false shouts of rape
A WOMAN who shouted "rape" when a taxi-driver, whom she had refused to pay, threatened to take her to a Garda station, was given suspended prison sentences at Galway District Court yesterday.
Imposing two consecutive two-month sentences on Florence Healy (26), Laurel Park, Newcastle, Galway, which he suspended for 12 months, Judge Aeneus McCarthy said anyone who made a false allegation of rape should go to prison.
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