Jamie Jess Kightley, 27, formerly of Northampton, and Danielle Louise Driver, 27, of Sam Harrison Way, Northampton, concocted the plan in an effort to acquit Kightley for a separate offence.

They attempted to do this by sending an email from a fake email address, purporting to be from the person who made the allegation. In the email sent to Kightley, the victim suggested that they had fabricated their account of the events and that they were deeply apologetic for doing so. If genuine, the email would have undermined the entire case.

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