A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who was acquitted on Friday night of multiple rape was locked up for almost a year awaiting trial.Patrick Waring, then a 15-year-old Catholic college student, was dragged out of bed by police a year ago and refused bail on nothing but the say-so of a lying 17-year-old girl who cried rape.
Just before the trial started, the girl admitted lying about her sex life the whole time. She had insisted she was a virgin.
DNA tests excluded Patrick from her claims of rape.
She finally admitted she had had sex with a man at the back of a cinema the same afternoon, two hours before claiming Patrick raped her at Joondalup's Central Park after following her from the railway station on March 30 last year.
She also admitted to having been in a sexual relationship with her boyfriend at the time.
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