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    "title": "Cab driver falsely accused of rape saved by his phone app",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2013-07-26 13:50:06 UTC",
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        "2013-07-26 13:50:06 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Mohammed Asif was left in tears in a police cell after Astria Berwick told officers he had carried out an assault on her in his cab.</p>\n<p>But the 34-year-old eventually proved his innocence with a voice recording app he was using in his taxi because his CCTV was broken.</p>\n<p>Berwick, of Bingham, Notts, was sentenced to 16 months in prison after admitting perverting the course of justice.</p>\n<p>Nottingham Crown Court heard she had used Mr Asif's taxi on February 20, then called police to say she had been the victim of a serious sexual assault.</p>\n<p>Judge Michael Stokes QC, The Recorder of Nottingham, said: \"This was outrageous behaviour by the defendant against a wholly innocent man who had been saved by the recording on his phone.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Do all women lie about rape all of the time? No. Do some women lie about rape some of the time? Yes. Via <a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10160029/Cab-driver-falsely-accused-of-rape-saved-by-his-phone-app.html\">Cab driver falsely accused of rape saved by his phone app - Telegraph</a>.</p>\n"
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