A senior judge has said it “beggars belief” that a woman would invent 15 rapes and sexual assaults just to claim victim compensation as a court rejected an appeal to clear her name.

Jemma Beale, 27, was described as a “serial liar” who invented allegations in part to make her female lover jealous. She was jailed for ten years in 2017 after her lies resulted in an innocent man serving a two-year prison term and the police spending more than £250,000 investigating her allegations.

Beale, who lived in west London, claimed that she had been seriously sexually assaulted by six men and raped by nine in four incidents over three years. However, she was found guilty at Southwark crown court in 2017 of four charges