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Woman's False Rape Claim Costs Her $7,000 | the Royal Gazette:Bermuda News 10/4/2017 Woman's false rape claim costs her $7,000 | The Royal Gazette:Bermuda News BERMUDA | Wednesday October 4, 2017 Subscription RSS Mobile Welcome Guest | Register | Sign In SEARCH ARTICLES News Business Sport Lifestyle Opinion Features Classifieds Jobs Obituaries Calendar RGmags Woman’s false rape claim costs her $7,000 By Sam Strangeways Published Oct 23, 2009 at 12:01 am (Updated Feb 10, 2011 at 1:11 pm) ShareThis A woman who sparked a $6,000 police investigation after pretending she was raped in her home by two masked intruders was ordered to pay the full cost of the inquiry yesterday. Michelle Lee Carreiro, of Cut Road, St. George's, appeared at Magistrates' Court where she pleaded guilty to wilfully and knowingly making the false report to Police last week. Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told her she could have been jailed for six months but instead he fined her $1,000 plus $6,000 reparation to Bermuda Police Service. Click here for detailed forecast First Prev 1 Next Last 75 F Mostly Cloudy Must pay: Michelle Carreiro leaves Magistrate' Court yesterday after admiting to making a fasle claim of rape. A woman who sparked a $6,000 police investigation after pretending she was raped in her home by two masked intruders was ordered to pay the full cost of the inquiry yesterday. Michelle Lee Carreiro, of Cut Road, St. George's, appeared at Magistrates' Court where she pleaded guilty to wilfully and knowingly making the false report to Police last week. Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told her she could have been jailed for six months but instead he Auto Solutions fined her $1,000 plus $6,000 reparation to Bermuda Police Service. Follow The 22-year-old gave detectives a 19-page statement about the fabricated October 15 attack but on With Honda your dreams await. Wednesday she admitted to officers at Southside Police Station that she made up the whole thing. #yourdreamsgowithyou For more information, please visit: http://hondacars.bm/ (View photo) Acting Senior Crown Counsel Cindy Clarke said Carreiro's lie was aimed at covering up a sexual relationship she was having with her ex-boyfriend from her present partner. OCT 3 Ms Clarke said: "The defendant stated that she had rough sex with her ex-boyfriend that night and that the sex was rougher than normal. "Her ex-boyfriend had punched her on the right side of her face during the sex, leaving a bruise. She stated that she did not know how she was going to explain this bruise to her current boyfriend and decided to report that she had been sexually assaulted to cover up the bruises. "The defendant further stated that she did not think that the Police investigation would progress so fast and that she was sorry for making a false report to the Police." Seven officers were deployed to investigate Carreiro's complaint, putting more than 100 Police manpower hours into the case. http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20091023/NEWS/310239968 1/3 10/4/2017 Woman's false rape claim costs her $7,000 | The Royal Gazette:Bermuda News She told them that at about 8.45 p.m. on October 15 she went to get her cell phone out of her car and Most Popular was attacked from behind by two masked men. They forced her inside her apartment, she alleged, and took turns sexually assaulting her during a 15-minute ordeal, before fleeing on foot. Today Yesterday Most Commented 10/04/2017 But Police inquiries, including a forensic examination of the scene, uncovered inconsistencies in the BIU leaders update members on wages talks story. 10/04/2017 Care urged after oil leak Carreiro, who represented herself in court, told the Senior Magistrate: "I<\p>just want to apologise for 10/04/2017 making this false statement. I didn't know where to turn with the position I was put in, I put myself in, Gombey Festival expanded and I didn't think it would get blown up to this proportion." THE WEEK'S MOST DISCUSSED STORIES She said her current boyfriend's mother called Police to report the attack and she "ended up just going along with it". "I also figured that if my ex, if he knew that this had happened to me, he would leave me alone as well." Ms Clarke said Carreiro gave detectives such a full account of the "brutal sexual assault" and detailed descriptions of the supposed assailants that they were about to arrest two men in the East End when she confessed her lie. The prosecutor added: "I don't understand why someone who has no previous convictions would do something like this. I don't know why any woman would think up a rape and one as brutal as this. "It put the community on edge that there were these people in the community who could break into a house." Mr. Warner said: "She thought it was no big thing to make up a story, however serious, to cover her tracks." He gave tearful Carreiro, a clerk at furniture importers Joshua Bates Ltd., until November 22 to pay the $1,000 fine or face three months in prison. She has until January 22 to pay back Police. Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Wright said after yesterday's hearing that the local community was rocked by the rape claim. "There's been a lot of policing activity to follow up on what on the face of it appeared to be a most serious and heinous offence," he said, adding that the entire Eastern Criminal Investigation Unit worked on the case, with support from the Serious Crime Unit. October 2017 "They've done a very extensive investigation every day for the last seven days. Unfortunately this S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 takes resources away from other active investigations." 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Police spokesman Dwayne Caines said: "By the fact that this came to court, our hope is that it sends 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 a clear message to members of the public that would like to use the system for their own perverted 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 means that they will be put before the court." 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 He added: "We do not want this to be a deterrent for individuals who have legitimate cases. We believe that it's important to work with vulnerable members of our community to make them feel comfortable in coming forward." ShareThis Take Our Poll What will be the best way to create needed new jobs? Attract more international companies 29% Grow the population 10% Reduce the number of non-Bermudian workers 14% Develop new business sectors other than international business and tourism 36% Retrain the workforce 12% Total Votes: 5529 Poll Archive http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20091023/NEWS/310239968 2/3.
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