Young mother who claimed she was raped by an ex-boyfriend to cover up drunken threesome with two men is jailed for three years

Lisa Yapp, 24, had sex with the two men who she met in a pub In Worcester

Police and CSI sealed off alleyway where she claimed attack happened

Went to see a friend after sex session and told her she had been raped

Luckily ex-boyfriend had alibi - he was 30 miles away with friends

A young mother who lied to police about being raped by her ex-boyfriend in a bid to cover up a drunken threesome she had with two men she met in a pub has been jailed for three years.

Lisa Yapp, 24, romped with the pair in the kitchen of one of their homes after seducing them by showing naked photos of herself and telling them she enjoyed orgies.

She even high-fived the men after the booze-fuelled sex session but later turned up on the doorstep of a friend in tears claiming that she had been raped.

Guilty: Lisa Yapp was jailed for three years for concocting a tissue of lies about her ex-boyfriend raping her to cover up the fact that she had indulged in a drunken with two men she met in a pub (right) Yapp arriving at Worcester Crown Court to face her sentencing



The single mother-of-one told the friend she had been attacked by her former boyfriend Gavin Hockey, 30, on July 31, 2011.

Police then launched a major investigation after she told them her attacker ‘sounded and felt’ like Mr Hockey.

Officers sealed off the alleyway in Worcester where the attack was alleged to have taken place and forensic teams spent hours searching the scene for evidence.

But it later emerged Mr Hockey had an alibi and could be seen on CCTV on a night out with friends 30 miles away in Hereford.

Yapp, from Ronkswood, Worcester, was found unanimously guilty of perverting the course of justice by making a false statement after a seven-day trial in January.

And today she was jailed for three years at Worcester Crown Court for her ‘deliberate and determined attempt’ to get her former boyfriend arrested.

The court was told how Yapp had a ‘complete disconnection’ with reality and would make complaints to those in authority as often as most people ‘would go to the hairdressers’.

Final request: Lisa Yapp has a last cigarette before heading into court where she was sentenced to three years for perverting the course of justice

Sentencing her Judge Michael Cullum said: ‘You made a false complaint of rape. It was abundantly clear that the complaint that you made was a false, serious complaint.

‘It’s only so obviously false now by looking back on all the work that’s been done by the police.

‘That takes hours and hours of police time from specialist officers who should be using their time to investigate genuine cases of rape.

‘The alleyway was blocked off, officers had to guard that location, forensic teams needed to come not only to that location but also to speak to the person who was arrested.

‘He (Gavin Hockey) was of course spoken to, he was not detained in custody but he was on bail for quite some time having these matters hanging over him.

‘The potential outcome of being wrongly convicted was serious and he would have received a very lengthy sentence of imprisonment.

‘You present as a clear tragic figure. You’ve had problems for many, many years.

‘You worked your way around the evidence to state what you wanted to say happened.



‘You invent things. Nothing you say can be consistently relied on. Not only did you come up with a lie but you had many opportunities to move away from that lie.

Yapp claimed she had been attacked by her former partner Gavin Hockey in July 2011

‘You followed this complaint for two-and-a-half years damaging a lot of people by using their resources.

‘This was a deliberate and determined attempt to pervert the course of justice.’

Yapp, who wore a grey top with a black cardigan and black trousers, showed no emotion as she was led out of the dock.

Her brother, who joined her mother and father in the public gallery above, shouted at the judge as he ordered she be taken down.

On January 15, it took the jury just 29 minutes of deliberation to return their guilty verdict after Yapp’s trial.

'It was abundantly clear that the complaint that you made was a false, serious complaint. ‘It’s only so obviously false now by looking back on all the work that’s been done by the police.' Judge Michael Cullum sentencing Yapp

The court was told that Yapp got chatting to friends Matthew Stevens, 39, and Terry Lippett in the Goodrest Tavern, in Worcester in the summer of 2011.

The trio returned to Mr Stevens’s home around the corner from the pub after the talk became ‘sexual’.

When they arrived, he said Yapp had shown them more photographs in his kitchen before stripping off and telling them she had been involved in orgies in the past.

Mr Stevens told the jury he had sexual intercourse with Yapp over the kitchen work surface while Lippett said he ‘groped’ her while the pair were having sex.

He told the court: ‘Afterwards I thought “That was a bit mad, I can’t believe what just happened.”

‘I was a bit embarrassed to be honest.’

Yapp and her friend then later called police to report she had been raped near her home.

In a recorded police interview played to the court, she told officers: ‘I knew someone was walking behind me and I started walking a bit faster.

‘I felt his fist hit the back of my head and he pushed my back down.

‘He grabbed hold of my hair and with his other hand he pulled my trousers down.’

She added that she had screamed and tried to fight back as her attacker raped her before pinning her to the floor shouting: ‘I told you I’d get you for it.’

Yapp also revealed she had previously made allegations of rape against Mr Hockey, which had been dropped, and believed the attack was revenge.

But a police investigation soon revealed Mr Hockey had been out with friends in Hereford and a medical examination of Yapp found no evidence that she had been attacked.

The jury concluded that Yapp, pictured with an unidentified man, had a drunken threesome with two men she had met in a pub and lied to try and hide the truth

And CCTV from the pub and friend’s accounts showed she had left the pub with two older men in the opposite direction to the alleyway.

After being arrested, Yapp changed her story and claimed to police that she suffered from blackouts – but still maintained she had been raped.

It also emerged she had a history for lying after another of her ex-boyfriends Darren Edwards, 26, told the jury she would often tell ‘major’ lies.

The court also heard that Yapp had previously made an allegation of sex abuse against her step-father when she was just 13.

But she later admitted she had lied, and said she had made the complaint to get more affection from her family.

Defending John Dyer said his client had a ‘complete disconnection with reality’ and had a borderline personality disorder.

He added: ‘She does say she does have remorse and she realises the trouble she has caused to the people involved.

‘Thankfully Mr Hockey was not detained for too long and thankfully there was CCTV evidence showing that it could not possibly have been him.

‘There is a borderline personality disorder but it has not been properly diagnosed or assessed.

‘The letter from the psychiatrist shows the complete disconnect with reality that Miss Yapp has.

‘She says that she told a psychiatrist she drank two-and-a-half to three litres of vodka a day at the age of seven which is a simply astonishing thing for anyone to say.

‘The number of times that she goes to those in authority, whether it be A&E or psychiatrists, and makes complaints is quite astonishing.

‘It’s almost as frequent as one might go to the hairdressers.

‘She claims to have had a sexual relationship for four years between the ages of six and ten.