UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
A priest has been cleared of rape after a court heard the woman made up the allegation based on the violent books of a popular crime writer.
By Telegraph reporters
1:17PM BST 16 Apr 2013
Father John Taylor, 49, found himself accused of raping the woman after meeting his accuser on Facebook and going on a dinner date which ended in sex.
The woman reported him for rape and he lost his job, found himself shunned by parishioners and had his car vandalised three times.
He was also banned from seeing his two young children who live with his ex wife Zsanett, 34, in her native Hungary because of the allegation.
Father Taylor was due to stand trial for rape on Monday but the case collapsed minutes before it was due to start.
Canterbury Crown Court heard that the woman, in her late 20s, told police she identified with the characters in the novels by Martina Cole which feature violent rape.
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