Jailed, student who lied that her ex beat her
A STUDENT who lied to police about being strangled and beaten by her ex-boyfriend was yesterday jailed for 15 months. Single mother Natasha Uttamsingh, 22, warned Aakash Andrews that she would ruin his career when he told her he wanted to split up, and after calling police about the fake attack she even convinced a judge to grant a restraining order against him.
Mr Andrews was arrested and taken from the flat they shared but detectives realised Uttamsingh had lied when they found a message on her phone which she had sent to herself from Mr Andrews’ phone saying that he raped her.
The midwifery student also altered a medical examination form in which she had claimed that police needed to investigate the attack, and changed a contact in her phone to his name to make it look like he had called her 25 times.
She then used the extra details to take out a non-molestation order against Mr Andrews.
Tony Prosser, prosecuting, said: ‘The relationship was experiencing problems and Aakash had said he wanted to end it.
‘When he suggested finishing it she told him she was pregnant. He said he wanted to go away for a few days. She stood in front of him and said she would report him for domestic assault if he were to try to leave her.
‘She then made an allegation he had strangled her to the point of unconsciousness and that she was assaulted on a daily basis. The next day she said she had been subject to rape.’
Uttamsingh was seen by a specialist doctor who noted that she had a red mark on her neck after Mr Andrews had pushed her during an explosive row but there was nothing to suggest she had been raped or beaten.
However, months later, she took the report and altered it herself to suggest that police needed to investigate the matter and used it to take out a non-molestation order against Mr Andrews, 37.
Michael Hillman, defending, claimed Uttamsingh had a personality disorder and her crimes had scuppered her prospects of becoming a midwife. He added: ‘She maintains that she was the victim of abuse but she has to acknowledge that as a result of her own conduct one will never know whether that was indeed a true complaint, given the lies and the very significant lies that followed that allegation.
‘This is a girl who did extremely well. She got very good grades at school and was a top-of-the-class student who started a degree in midwifery.’
Uttamsingh, of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, showed no emotion as she was sentenced to 15 months after admitting four counts of intending to pervert the course of justice and was given a restraining order to keep away from her ex-partner, his mother or his friends for five years.
Sentencing at Guildford Crown Court, Judge Christopher Critchlow, said: ‘There was a false message put on his phone by you suggesting it was sent by him which indicated that he had raped you, all of which was false.
‘You altered medical records from a doctor which was put before the family court in support of an application by you for a non-molestation order, which you obtained.
‘He was able to go before the court and show it should not have been made and it was receded.
‘Then you produced false phone records on your noble implying harassment. This was all an apparent charade.
‘You have tried to influence a court by dishonestly altering medical records and tried to bring problems into Aakash Andrews’ life and you have succeeded in doing that.’
Uttamsingh’s mother, who sat at the back of the courtroom throughout her daughter’s sentencing, cried as she was taken away from the dock.
‘Altered medical records’