When Daniel Jones met this girl of his dreams, he thought he had found the person he was going to spend the rest of his life with.

But their whirlwind romance became a nightmare for Jones and his family when he realised the woman he loved was a calculating and manipulative liar – who would destroy his life and reputation with false rape and abuse allegations.

This Sunday on 60 Minutes, a broken family speaks exclusively to reporter Liz Hayes about how Sarah Jane Parkinson managed to send an innocent man to jail for crimes he did not commit, and how the police failed to test her claims – instead almost blindly trusting her accusations.

Daniel Jones on 60 Minutes. (60 Minutes)

Daniel Jones and Sarah Jane Parkinson in happier times. (60 Minutes)

In 2011, when 25-year-old Jones met 20-year-old Sarah Jane Parkinson, it was love at first sight.

The young couple from Canberra were quick to reach their relationship milestones – in just a few months there was a marriage proposal, and then a mortgage.

But their picture-perfect reality came crashing down on the day they were scheduled to move into their brand-new home in the suburbs of Canberra.

From her workplace at Queanbeyan Police Station, Parkinson convinced her police colleagues to serve an AVO (apprehended violence order) against Jones for allegedly abusing her.

Questioned by police, Jones maintained he had never been violent towards Parkinson – but, in her word against him, they believed her.

"I'd just built a house and she'd moved in with me, everything was going well," Jones told 60 Minutes reporter Liz Hayes in an exclusive sneak peek.

"I had everything going right… and in that instant, everything just went to s---."

Reporter Liz Hayes with Jones. (60 Minutes)

Jones left the police station shaken and bewildered, returning to the home he shared with Parkinson with a shattering question: could someone who professed to love him be trying to destroy him?

But Parkinson duplicitously claimed it was her police workmates being over-protective, and she had not asked for the AVO.

But she had, and the AVO was just the beginning of a harrowing ordeal that Jones says has ruined his life, devastated his family and taken everything from him.

What followed was the unravelling of every lie Sarah Jane Parkinson had ever told about her fiancé – including two false rape allegations, and exposed her relentless mission to strip Daniel Jones of everything he owned, including the house they had built together.

60 Minutes airs this Sunday at 8.30pm on Channel 9.