A compulsive liar has been jailed for 16 months after falsely claiming she had been raped 11 times in nine years.
Elizabeth Jones, 22, made her first fabricated allegation to police in 2004 when she was aged just 13, Southampton Crown Court was told.
Police said that the young woman had accused at least one individual just because she did not like them anymore, putting innocent men through a 'terrible emotional experience'.
Jones' latest victim was arrested and quizzed for nine hours before being released without charge because CCTV footage disproved her claims she was forcibly taken to a property and raped.
It also emerged today that in 2009 she was given a ten month detention and training order for making up a sex attack.
Between 2005 and 2007 she had made eight other allegations, which police investigated, but she did not face court proceedings.
Police launched an investigation after Jones, from Southampton, Hampshire, instigated a friend to report she had been sexually assaulted.
She later went to the police station for a medical examination and repeated her allegation.
Prosecutor Jennie Rickman told Southampton Crown Court a man was arrested but he denied the rape allegation.