Jealous wife trapped by her lipstick after faking hate campaign and framing love rival



A woman was caught out by DNA on her lipstick after staging a hate campaign against herself and trying to frame her husband’s lover.

Lyn Kitching went to extraordinary lengths to gain revenge on her former friend Andrea Pearce, who had told her she was having an affair with her husband Jason, 39.

Kitching, 27, threw bleach in her own face, stabbed herself with a screwdriver, sent herself death threats and started a fire in her house during a nine-month campaign against her love rival.

Extraordinary methods: Kitching threw bleach in her own face and stabbed herself with a screwdriver during the campaign. She was given a nine-month suspended prison sentence

The incidents were blamed on Mrs Pearce, a married mother, and reported to the police.

As a result Mrs Pearce was arrested four times and spent 20 hours in custody over incidents she had nothing to do with.

Eventually police discovered the truth by forensic detective work. In February, Kitching used lipstick to write ‘Ha ha die fast’ on her window and then sent a threatening letter to herself, hoping to put Mrs Pearce in the frame again.



But forensic tests on the lipstick proved it belonged to Kitching and the gum on the envelope of the letter also had her DNA on it.

Kitching admitted responsibility after being confronted with the scientific evidence.



She pleaded guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice at Hull Crown Court last week and was given a suspended nine-month prison sentence, and an 18-month supervision order.



The Recorder of Hull, Judge Michael Mettyear, said: ‘This was absolutely outrageous conduct. I have never come across conduct like it.

‘You wasted substantial police time. She had told you she was having an affair with your husband and that caused you to flip and you fell into this almost addiction of making up stories against her.’



Kitching, of Hull, made eight false allegations to police between May last year and February. She began by writing on her own window: ‘I will get you. I will kill you both.’

She claimed eight days later someone had knocked on her door and thrown bleach in her face. She was treated in hospital for burns to her cheek. Kitching suggested Mrs Pearce was behind it. In June last year she dialled 999 over a faked arson attack, claiming her smoke alarm had gone off and she had found burning newspapers in her home.

In August Kitching accused Mrs Pearce of throwing bleach in her eyes as she put rubbish in her wheelie bin.

Kitching then stabbed herself in the stomach with a screwdriver – and needed medical treatment for a 3in wound – and told police Mrs Pearce was responsible.

Mrs Pearce denied any wrongdoing and she and her family were forced to keep diaries to help prove her innocence.

Her victim impact statement said: ‘These allegations affected me greatly and disrupted my family life. It affected my children and caused arguments with my husband. It caused me to question my sanity. I want to put this nightmare behind me.’