Muammar Al Khadafi

The face of Hampshire polices campaign against so called honour violence has been jailed for three years after admitting she concocted a false story about being gang raped by three men and to committing a series of frauds.

Syeda Ali, 30, had claimed that she had been bundled into a car by three men, driven to a house in Southampton, where she was raped by the trio.

All three of the men she named were arrested, but it was found that none of them had been near the area at the time of the crime.

The reason for this turned out to be simple - the attack was all a figment of her imagination and the gang rape never took place.

As police investigated further, it was discovered that the three men she had named as rapists all appeared on fake loan applications made to Provident Personal Credit, for which she was an agent.

Numerous further loan applications subsequently surfaced, with ficticious applicants, or made in the names of real people who had never applied for a loan.

Ali admitted sixteen counts of fraud and one count of perverting the course of justice when she appeared at Southampton Crown Court, and was jailed for a total of three years.

DC Gary Steward of Hampshire Police said after the case that "Our investigation has proved this young woman lied about a very serious allegation of kidnap and rape".