Monday, March, 9 2026 - A policewoman who falsely accused an innocent colleague of s£xual ass@ult in a bid to cover up her lateness for work has been sentenced to one year in prison.
Lauren Evans, 34, said a plain-clothes cop in an unmarked
car stopped her while she was driving in March 2023 and falsely claimed he was
called 'Watson.'
The next day, innocent PC Alex Watson, whom Evans had never
met, was arrested in front of his wife and children as they arrived home from a
wedding.
By coincidence, Mr Watson was driving an unmarked car in the
area where Evans, from Kent, alleged the attack had occurred.
He was arrested and spent 23 hours in custody before
detectives established that Evans had made up the allegation.
The Sun reported he said in a statement: 'To make up an
allegation of this nature I find disgraceful. I was treated like a violent
criminal.'
He added that he and his wife, who together worked for 30
years in the Met, 'felt betrayed and let down by the organization'.
In December, Evans was found guilty of perverting the course
of justice.
One month later, she was fired for discreditable conduct at
a disciplinary hearing and is to be placed on the Policing Barred List.
Judge Martin Griffith said it was 'all through a simple lie
told in circumstances which must have had something to do with being late.'
Evans was jailed for one year at Southwark Crown Court in
South London.
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