A married mother-of-four from Canterbury destroyed the lives of two soldiers after accusing them of raping her.
After Teresa Aldridge's lies, the fiancée and children of one soldier left him while the other quit the Army and moved away.
City magistrates heard one of the innocent men later said he felt "degraded" as police took blood, pubic hair and DNA samples from his penis as he lay on a table.
Aldridge, 41, of Cumberland Avenue on the Spring Lane Estate, appeared at court having admitted wasting police time.
Rachael Laughland, prosecuting, said over the course of 24 hours about 20 police officers investigated allegations Aldridge had been raped by two men on March 24, last year.
"A member of the public contacted police to say he had come across a woman who said she had been raped by two men she described as squaddies," Miss Laughland said.
"Eight officers went to the barracks where they arrested two men."
She said she was taken into a room where she said two men had raped her.
"I have lost everything. My fiancee and children have left me and I now lead the life of a single man...? ? a victim of Teresa Aldridge
After his arrest, one of the soldiers said he had had sex with Aldridge, but it was consensual.
He was nevertheless interviewed and examined as part of the rape investigation.
The day after the men were arrested, Aldridge returned to the police station to say she had, in fact, had consensual sex with one of them.
Afterwards, one of the soldiers gave a statement detailing his suffering as result of Aldridge's lies.
It read: "I was placed in a cell with a glass door and had a police officer watching me.
"Four blood samples were taken from me, my trousers were pulled down and pubic hair clipped and swabs were taken from my penis area.
"I felt disgusted and degraded. I started crying and asked for a solicitor.
"I have lost everything. My fiancee and children have left me and I now lead the life of a single man."
Miss Laughland told the court when the soldier returned to the barracks, he was branded a rapist and a paedophile
Magistrates told Aldridge she had come close to going to prison. They gave her a 120-day sentence suspended for two years with supervision and ordered her to pay £85 costs.
After Teresa Aldridge's lies, the fiancée and children of one soldier left him while the other quit the Army and moved away.
City magistrates heard one of the innocent men later said he felt "degraded" as police took blood, pubic hair and DNA samples from his penis as he lay on a table.
Aldridge, 41, of Cumberland Avenue on the Spring Lane Estate, appeared at court having admitted wasting police time.
Rachael Laughland, prosecuting, said over the course of 24 hours about 20 police officers investigated allegations Aldridge had been raped by two men on March 24, last year.
"A member of the public contacted police to say he had come across a woman who said she had been raped by two men she described as squaddies," Miss Laughland said.
"Eight officers went to the barracks where they arrested two men."
She said she was taken into a room where she said two men had raped her.
"I have lost everything. My fiancee and children have left me and I now lead the life of a single man...? ? a victim of Teresa Aldridge
After his arrest, one of the soldiers said he had had sex with Aldridge, but it was consensual.
He was nevertheless interviewed and examined as part of the rape investigation.
The day after the men were arrested, Aldridge returned to the police station to say she had, in fact, had consensual sex with one of them.
Afterwards, one of the soldiers gave a statement detailing his suffering as result of Aldridge's lies.
It read: "I was placed in a cell with a glass door and had a police officer watching me.
"Four blood samples were taken from me, my trousers were pulled down and pubic hair clipped and swabs were taken from my penis area.
"I felt disgusted and degraded. I started crying and asked for a solicitor.
"I have lost everything. My fiancee and children have left me and I now lead the life of a single man."
Miss Laughland told the court when the soldier returned to the barracks, he was branded a rapist and a paedophile
Magistrates told Aldridge she had come close to going to prison. They gave her a 120-day sentence suspended for two years with supervision and ordered her to pay £85 costs.
Incredible how so many women can ruin a mans life, and then walk away after admitting she made it up and her life carries on as if nothing happened.
No wonder so many rape claims don't get taken seriously when lying whores like this are around. The message to such women should be sent out loud and clear from the courts and they should get a proper jail sentence.
Too many of these false rape claims go unpunished.
Hopefully one day she will get raped and see how amusing she finds it then.
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