Scorned Rebecca Tooze hatches 'malicious' plot to frame ex-lover
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by Paul Hooper
A heavily pregnant woman has been
jailed for four years after hatching "a wicked plot" to frame an
innocent ex-lover.
Malicious Rebecca Tooze, 35, arranged
for a vile photograph depicting a naked child in a bondage harness
to be slipped into the car of a man against whom she held a
grudge.
Then another boyfriend, long-distance
lorry driver James Willis, 37, made an anonymous phone call to the
police in September 2010 claiming the same man had had offered him
child porn pictures in Deal High Street.
Now Tooze, who has moved from Dover to
Bridgewater in Somerset, will give birth to her child in prison
after admitting conspiring to pervert the course of justice - on
the day her trial was expected to start.
The victim - who cannot be named for
legal reasons, faced losing his career and his liberty, Canterbury
Crown Court heard.
Tooze dreamed up her "prolonged,
malicious and perverted plot " after her relationship with the
ex-lover "turned toxic".
She recruited Willis to carry out the
plan to make child porn pictures involving a two year old baby and
while the victim was at work - broke into his parked car...and
planted the 'evidence'.
Then hours later Willis made
his secret call to police naming the man.
But the victim discovered the porn
stash in the back seat of his car and reported it to his superiors
and to detectives.
Police then uncovered Tooze's evil
plot - by tracking forensic evidence from a car accident to the
home of Willis in Manorfield, Ashford.
Although Tooze denied an intimate
relationship with Willis - detectives found her DNA on bondage
equipment which also appeared in the top Level Five porn images of
a child - photographed from the neck down.
And inside Willis' computer, forensic
experts discovered he had printed adult pornographic images from
two internet sites, "Rape Stories 3D" and "Ravished Bride" - which
were also planted in the victim's car.
Prosecutor Paul Valder said a search
of the house also revealed a script - in Tooze's handwriting - of
the anonymous phone call to police made by Willis.
In jailing Tooze and Willis to four
years in prison, Judge Adele Williams told them: "This was truly
wicked behaviour by both of you and one of the worst examples of
perverting the course of justice there could be.
"You planted child pornography in the
back of the car of an innocent man. You two hatched the plot to
discredit him."
Tooze, she said, had acted out of
"calculation and malice and selfish self-interest."
The judge revealed that Tooze had
previously made allegations of rape against her ex-lover - which
had also been rejected by a court.
"If this plot have succeeded you would
have ruined his life," she added.
Paul Jarvis, for Tooze, who remained impassive throughout the
hearing, said she had been diagnosed with Histrionic Personality
Disorder.
He said she will now give birth to her
child in jail.
Tuesday, January 31 2012
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