A STUDENT'S lies and fake evidence got a young man repeatedly arrested and held in police custody in a disagreement over a girlfriend, York Crown Court heard.
Adam Changase, 20, claimed that he had received threatening calls and text messages from the other man and that the other man carried knives, said Nicola Hoskins, prosecuting.
He provided the police with screenshots of messages he claimed he had received from two unknown numbers from the other man, sent police four emails urging them to speed up the investigation and claimed he was so scared of the second man he couldn’t attend his college.
But none of it was true.
When police discovered that the unknown phone numbers had used Changase’s internet connection, they realised the truth and arrested him.
By then, they had arrested the other man three times over the false claims and kept him in custody for a total of eight hours and 10 minutes. They had also wasted time investigating Changase’s claims and preparing for and interviewing the other man “at a time when we all know police resources are stretched to the limit”, said the prosecution barrister.
Changase, of Riverside View, Norton, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice on the day he was due to stand trial.
Judge Simon Hickey said the victim had had “months of anxiety” and had been left wondering what would happen to him when he was innocent.
“I cannot compensate him in full because you (Changase) have little money,” he said, ordering Changase to pay...
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