A police constable who reported late for duty falsely claimed it was because she had been sexually assaulted by a fellow officer.
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 – who 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 organisation’.
In December, Evans was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Lauren Evans (pictured) falsely claimed she was late for work because she had been sexually assaulted by a fellow officer
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.
