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Fantasist Jemma Beale has lost her appeal against her conviction and 10 year jail sentence for making false rape claims.

She had tried to claim she was unfairly convicted because the jury were not warned about sexual 'stereotypes.'

One man had gone to prison for two years over her false rape allegations, which even saw her given compensation for her "ordeal."

The Old Bailey heard today the 27-year-old was a serial liar who had shown "no remorse" over her bogus rape claims.

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Lady Justice Hallett said Beale had caused "considerable harm" to the justice system as she rejected Beale's appeal in court today.

Beale described herself as a lesbian with "no desire" for sex with men.

Her lies led to Mahad Cassim serving two years in jail.



Beale was later awarded £11,000 in criminal injuries compensation while Mr Cassim languished behind bars.

Police spent 6,400 hours investigating a series of rape claims she made at a cost to the taxpayer of £250,000.

In 2017 Beale was tried and convicted of perverting the course of justice and perjury.

But her lawyers today claimed her conviction is unsafe.

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Gillian Jones, QC, told the Court of Appeal: "The learned judge erred because he failed to give a direction about the dangers of myths and stereotypes.

"She was the subject of extensive media scrutiny in which she was vilified.

"The effect of which might have been to further prejudice the jury in the absence of such a direction.

"This reporting compounded or could have compounded these myths and stereotypes which were never corrected by way of judicial guidance to the jury.

"That loss of anonymity resulted in extensive adverse media both in the press and on social media."

Ms Jones argued the purpose of the "myths and stereotypes" direction by the judge was to prevent "unwarranted assumptions" and "illegitimate reasoning" leading to cynicism by the jury.

She added: "It is about jury education."

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Beale made her first complaint on the morning of 26 November 2010, when she told police she had been raped by Mr Cassim the previous night.

Jurors heard the then 37-year-old Somalian moved to the UK in 2002, aged 23, after a short stint living in Sweden where he also served in the military as part of the peace-keeping corps.

In a victim impact statement, Mr Cassim described the trauma of being imprisoned and how the conviction destroyed his relationships with friends and family due to the suspicion hanging over it.

"One of my goals in life is to be a successful businessman, to have a nice family and be happy," he said.

"I'm working on the happiness. I have a long way to go."

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Beale had also falsely complained to police she was groped by a complete stranger, Noam Shahzad, in The Windsor Castle pub, in Hounslow, in July 2012, and falsely claimed that he then took part in a vicious gang rape on her in the car park of a nearby medical centre.

CCTV later showed that Beale had attacked him in the pub before walking home alone.

Forensic tests also showed she had cut herself with a hanging flower basket to make it look like she had been sexually assaulted with barbed wire.

Mr Shahzad skipped bail and fled the country after being charged with sexual assault.

Beale then fabricated similar allegations against six other men in 2013.

She claimed two strangers sexually assaulted outside her home in Addlestone, Surrey, before claiming she was put through another gang rape attack by four others two months later in Feltham.

Two of the men identified by Beale were arrested and interviewed but never charged.

In 2017, Beale, formally of Bedfont, Middlesex, was jailed for ten years for perjury and perverting the course of justice by Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith.

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Her appeal before Lady Justice Hallett, Mr Justice Warby and Sir John Royce failed today.

Lady Hallett said: "We need no persuasion that myths and stereotypes about rape complainants still persist and if the evidence of a complainant is to be assessed fairly the trial judge should give the guidance by the judicial trial.

"However, the guidance is simply that, it is not a direction of law. It is also directed to a complainant not a defendant.

"This case went far further then myths and stereotypes about a complainant's behaviour. The appellant was accused of being a serial liar who fabricated accounts mostly of a sexual nature.

"In the light of the evidence called even if the guidance was given it would not have assisted the appellant.

"The system of justice has suffered considerable harm - considerable resources have been spent investigating and prosecuting crimes which never happened.

"There has been no indication of remorse on the appellant's part."