An Aberdeen woman who admitted falsely accusing her friend’s son of rape has been warned she faces jail.
Kelly Harwood had drunken consensual sex with the 30-year-old on a camp bed set up in her friend’s kitchen.
After, Harwood realised she had betrayed her friend and called the police claiming he had raped her.
Harwood was checked over at Woolmanhill Hospital and subjected her victim to an intrusive medical examination.
The man was also interviewed under caution at a police station – an experience he described as “embarrassing” and “sickening”.
Yesterday Harwood, 43, appeared at the city’s sheriff court to be sentenced having previously admitted wasting police time on May 7 last year at the cost of £1,352.
However, sentence had to be deferred again after the court heard she failed to attend a meeting so that background reports could be compiled.
The court heard Harwood also failed to turn up to court twice before she admitted her crime.
Yesterday Sheriff William Summers said he would imprison Harwood if she caused any more delays which stopped him from disposing of the case.
Earlier, Harwood, of 61 Cloverhill Crescent, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, claimed she did it because she felt guilty for sleeping with her friend’s son.
The court previously heard that Harwood had been at a party at her friend’s home on the evening of May 6.
Fiscal depute Elaine Ward said during the evening that the flat had been filled with people drinking.
Later that night the young man appeared at the flat, and after everyone had left, Harwood and her victim started to become intimate in the kitchen.
Mrs Ward said the sexual activity between the pair was always consensual, however moments after they stopped, she told him she had not agreed to it.
Harwood then called the police and said she had been raped while she had been asleep.
Mrs Ward said the man ran to wake his mother, who was asleep in the next room, to tell her what was happening and when they both returned Harwood told them not to worry.
She said she would tell the police the truth, however when they arrived at the flat, she continued to go along with her lies.
The court heard Harwood had been suffering from mental health problems since committing the offence and had checked herself into Cornhill Hospital.
As a result, she missed a court appearance which had been scheduled for earlier this year.
Sentence was further deferred on Harwood until next month for the background reports to be carried out into her character.