Dear Ellen, Women do not *report cases of rape* to the police, they make accusations of rape. The low conviction rate could just as illogically be interpreted as meaning a high rate of women lying. Rape accusations are much easier nowadays due to widespread awareness of confidentiality rules so we can no longer simply equate reports to real cases as you do.

Steve Bush, Cirencester, UK

To Ellen, Ipswich:-

That may be true and a very sad thing, but putting an innocent man in prison for a crime that he did not commit does not help 'balance the books.'

It is not acceptable to lie about having been raped any more than it is to commit rape, and until the feminists get round that one and accept that women who lie about sexual assault do untold damage to the genuine victims and should not go unpunished, the sooner the police forces will be more inclined to believe a woman if they know they lie they may face jail.

We are not talking here about a rape victim - we are talking about a liar, plain and simple.

Warren Blackwell, Daventry, England

There are far more false allegations than genuine rapes. These women are the abusers.

jo, london, uk

As for 'preferential treatment of women' - only one case in 13 of rape which is reported to the police ever results in a conviction. For every lying woman there must ten frustrated, damaged victims and ten arrogant rapists walking free for lack of evidence.

Ellen, Ipswich, UK

Thank goodness for a piece of 'proper usage of the law'. I can only hope that this sensible attitude will be reflected throughout the administration of legislation that applies to the criminal act of rape. It should not be forgotten that this area of law is a very 'grey' one and as often as not those who are 'guilty' often get away with it as the law itself on the subject is ambiguous to say the least. The moral argument should stand that it is wrong to commit such an offence and just as wrong to wrongly accuse someone of said offence.

C.S-U, Edinburgh, UK

At last! Maybe now the courts will concede that women are not always the victim and are quite capable of perjuring themselves for whatever strange reasons their fluffy minds have concocted. Unfortunately this does not make up for the many many men who have been wrongly convicted of rape because of a womans' lies BUT it's a start and perhaps now the courts and in particular the judges will take a tougher line with regard to sentencing.

Carole, Gramat, France

8 months isn't long enough ...

Benzo, Nr Chelmsford,

This case deserves to be made known far and wide. I shall certainly do my bit.

To Ash of UK, I don't have one of these new-fangled mobile phones, but I gather they record sound as well as pictures. That's how the judge knew that the taxi driver didn't have a screwdriver off-camera threatening the woman.

A very similar thing happened in a novel called 'Disclosure' by Michael Crichton which is based on a true story. In this story, a woman's advances are accidentally recorded on someone's answering machine.

Chris Manning, Monbulk, Australia

This type of occurance is not uncommon. There has been a lot of loud noise proffered in defense of women who are allegedly raped, to the point where the normal rules of justice are being called into question to favour the woman.

This case, and many others like it, should be a stark reminder that women can be and are just as deceitful as men and that the rules of justice should be applied accordingly.

In this case, justice has been done and an evil woman, who has further put back the cause of genuine rape victims should spend the time realising that she has only served the interests of rapists.

Jack Bloxam, Edinburgh,

The cabbie was foolish for having sex with her, but she was evil for what she did. Unfortunately the world is full of women who for their own inadequacies and perverted minds lie about men.

What upsets me the most is that for every one female caught lying like this there are thousands who get away with slandering men.

I spent years in courts fighting slander used to deny me access to my son. What disgusted me recently was to find that my son's social workers were concealing from the courts files which proved the mother was lying.

It's time men overthrew this tyranny of falsehoods by women

Simon Gunson, Wellington , New Zealand

He was onbiously stone cold sober and realised that the girl might only be having sex with him because she was very drunk as he had the presence of mind to video her. it says something about his character that he would have sex with a teenager when he knew she was too drunk. I would also like to point out that the video does not prove a thing as earlier this year a teacher was proven not guilty of sexually abusing a teenager even though there was a video of her performing oral sex on him. It turned out that he had a screwdriver in his hand off camera and was threatening her. Anyman who acted in the way this taxi driver did is capable of threatening a teenager.

Ash, uk,

"In court she pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice and was jailed for eight months by Judge Roger Thorn, QC, who told Campbell that her lies might have had devastating consequences."

Only eight months? She could easily have ruined that man's life!

Garth Strong, San Diego, USA/CAL