False Accusers / Wrongly Accused

A POLITICAL activist who says his life has been 'shattered' by false rape claims is returning to Weston to begin a fight for new laws to protect people from malicious allegations. Malcolm Blackman made national headlines two weeks ago when he went on trial at the Old Bailey accused of raping a woman at the Occupy London demonstration at St Paul's Cathedral. Jurors have since cleared the 46-year-old of any wrong-doing - and now Mr Blackman says he wants to return home 'with his head up high' and campaign to save others from having their lives 'ruined' in the same way.

HAMPTON - A woman who falsely accused a Hampton man of sex crimes pleaded guilty Tuesday morning. Elizabeth Coast faces up to 10 years in prison for perjury when she's sentenced on August 19. During her the trial in June 2008, she said Johnathon Montgomery forced her to perform oral sex. He was convicted and sent to prison. He was released just before Thanksgiving 2012 after more than four years behind bars after Coast admitted she lied to avoid scrutiny by her parents after she was caught looking for sexually explicit websites. Governor Bob McDonnell issued a conditional pardon for Montgomery and ordered his immediate release. The prosecution said Coast confessed to a police officer friend that she lied and added the she and Montgomery had never done anything.