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A woman falsely told police she had been raped after having sex with a man on a train after their first date.

Karen Farmer, 35, made the complaint after the man ran away from her once they got off the train at his stop.

She told officers the 23-year-old man had been 'aggressive and controlling' but CCTV footage showed the pair having consensual sex on the train from Glasgow to Blantyre.

Farmer, from Paisley now faces jail after pleading guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to falsely claiming she was raped and causing police to devote their time and services in an investigation she knew was false.

The court heard that on August 14, 2012, Farmer and a the man went on a date in Glasgow city centre.

They were seen drinking and being "openly physically affectionate" by kissing one another.

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Procurator fiscal depute Collette Fallon said that Farmer was under the impression that she would be staying the night with the man.

The pair later boarded a train at Glasgow Central station that was going to Blantyre - where her date lived.

While on the rain, they were captured on CCTV "engaging in consensual sex".

Miss Fallon said that when they got off of the train at Blantyre, the man told Farmer he needed the toilet but ran away from the station.

Farmer, visibly upset, looked for him and eventually asked to borrow someone's phone to text her date.

In the message she said: "Thanks for the night that I paid for for you to leave me in Blantyre."

The message also said: "For you to use me like that has made me feel so low."

Miss Fallon said; "The accused boarded the train back to Glasgow, during the course of the journey she knocked on the driver's cab door and the driver of the train opened the door and saw the accused was upset and crying.

"She told him she had been assaulted but did not specify further."

When she got to Central station she told police she had been sexually assaulted on the train and taken to a police station.

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The man was detained at work by police and questioned although later released. Police viewed the CCTV from train which did not show any rape taking place.

In October that year, Farmer was detained and later charged for wasting police time.

Defence counsel Louise Arrol said: "She has very little recollection of events that evening. When she viewed the CCTV she realised her recollection was not what she thought it was."

Describing the actions of the man who left her at the train station she told the sheriff: "It certainly wasn't chivalrous."

Farmer will be sentenced next month.