By Kevin Shoesmith
BBC News
Ryan Kerrison spent 56 days locked up in prison after his partner Kirsty Barr maliciously claimed he had subjected her to months of domestic abuse. Speaking exclusively to the BBC he shared the story of his ordeal.
Ryan can't even bring himself to say his former partner's name, preferring instead to call her the "perpetrator".
He sits in his family's living room, with photographs adorning the walls, as Kirsty Barr - the mother of his six-year-old child - serves a near four-year prison sentence at HMP Newhall in Wakefield for perverting the course of justice.
"I don't have any photos of my perpetrator," Ryan, 27, tells me. "I got rid of them all when her lies started."
Barr, 24, told police, and later national newspapers, that he had subjected her to repeated abuse, both physical and mental.
To quote a senior detective, Ryan was "depicted to the world as a monster" by a woman who "had her own devious and malicious agenda to try and ruin his life".
Giving his first media interview, Ryan is close to tears as he recalls how he spent his child's second birthday in a prison cell.
"It was my lowest point," he says. "My life was, and still is, my child. I wanted to end my life. My life felt like a revolving, torturous door.
"But I did not want to die a guilty man. So I decided, in that cell, to fight back."
Ryan met Barr through a mutual friend in late 2014.
He says: "She was funny, seemed really outgoing and ticked a lot of boxes for me. She seemed a...
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