AN ATTENTION-SEEKING woman who made up bogus rape and sex assault claims against 15 men in just three years was today found guilty for telling "appalling lies".

Jemma Beale's complaints led to Mahad Cassim serving two years in jail for having sex with her after she claimed to be a lesbian with "no desire" for men.

4 Jemma Beale was jailed over making bogus rape claims Credit: Central News

The 25-year-old told police Mr Cassim raped her after offering to give her a lift home - but in fact she got out of the car and told him: "Get your pants down."

Beale, who had said in a victim impact statement: "I feel that any sentence he receives will never reflect the life sentence that he gave me" was then awarded £11,000 in compensation while Mr Cassim languished behind bars.

She later complained to police she was groped by a stranger, Noam Shazad, in a pub in July 2012, before he was involved in her alleged gang rape.

Beale even injured herself to back up her claims that she had been assaulted with barbed wire.

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

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

4 The 25-year-old had received compensation while the man she accused of rape languished behind bars Credit: Central News

She claimed two strangers sexually assaulted her close to her home in Ashford, Middlesex, before she was put through another gang rape attack by four others two months later.

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

It wasn't until police found common discrepancies in her story that they became suspicious that Beale had been lying.

Beale insisted she had been raped but after a five-week trial at Southwark Crown Court a jury of six men and five women took eight hours and 45 minutes to find her guilty.

She sat wide-eyed as the verdicts were read out and turned to speak to her parents in the public gallery a number of times.

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Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith ordered psychiatric reports and referred to Beale's "attention-seeking", remanding her in custody until her expected sentencing in August.

Beale told the court she had been bullied at school for being fat, having insisted she was a lesbian.

She said: "I'm not going to go to a man I don't know and ask him for sex," she insisted.

"I ain't bisexual at all."

4 Police said Beale had been exposed as a serial liar Credit: Central News

4 Beale was found guilty of four counts of perjury and four counts of perverting the course of justice Credit: Central News

Detective Sergeant Kevin Lynott, who led the investigation into Beale’s false allegations, said she had been exposed as a "serial liar".

He said: "Her manipulation of the criminal justice system has caused police to direct significant amounts of resource into investigating her bogus complaints as well as her own offending. She has also significantly impacted on the NHS as a result of her complaints and used up many other limited resources that are relied upon by genuine survivors.

"Not only that, but she then went on to give false testimony at court, which resulted in the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of a completely innocent man."

Beale, of Middlesex, denied four counts of perjury and four counts of perverting the course of justice but was convicted by the jury.

She was remanded in custody ahead of sentence at Southwark Crown Court on 24 August.