David and Jennifer Harris of Cardiff were going
through a bitter divorce and David refused to take his wife back;
but the one thing he never expected to happen was that he would be
arrested by the police.
It only took one complaint by Jennifer Harris to
the police, and the usual institutional misandric police machine
went into action and David Harris was arrested. Mrs Harris, of Lakin
Drive, Barry, complained that her husband had sent her death
threats. She showed the messages to the police. As usual, they
believed the woman and did not believe the man.
She plotted against her husband by driving six
miles to her husband's new home in Wenvoe, put his old sim card in
the phone and then made the threatening calls to her own phone.
Fortunately the phone company Orange enquired into the matter more
deeply than the police and found that the calls had been made on Mrs
Harris's handset, otherwise there would have been yet another
innocent man sent to prison on the word of a woman.
Because of his wife's lies Mr Harris suffered
six months of hell having to appear before Barry Magistrates' Court
and also Cardiff Crown Court. He was also arrested on two other
occasions by the police following other allegations his wife made
against him.
On 23rd February Mrs Harris appeared in Cardiff
crown Court on the charge of trying to pervert the course of
justice. She pleaded guilty and was warned that she faced a jail
sentence.
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The TIMES ONLINE
February 23, 2005
Wife tried to frame ex by
text
By Simon de Bruxelles
The threats sent by an
embittered woman to herself were traced by phone technicians
A WOMAN sent threatening text messages to
herself in an attempt to frame her estranged husband as a potential
killer.
Jennifer Harris, 52, falsely claimed that her ex
was threatening to kill her after she sent texts to her own phone
using an old SIM card belonging to her estranged husband.
She sent the messages while sitting in her car
outside his new home, knowing that technicians would be able to
establish where the calls had come from.
She did not realise that technicians from the
phone company Orange would be able to establish that the texts were
sent using her husband’s SIM card, but her own handset.
One text she sent herself said: “You’ll be
looking over your shoulder for the rest of your life.”
Her husband was arrested and appeared in court
charged with making threats to kill.
Yesterday, however, she was the one facing jail
after pleading guilty at Cardiff Crown Court to attempting to
pervert the course of justice.
Her husband, David Harris, also 52, said that
his soon-to-be ex-wife hatched the plot when the pair were going
through a bitter divorce after 28 years of marriage.
He said: “It was all because I wouldn’t take her
back. I’ve been through six months of sheer hell. I was arrested for
the text messages and she was still going to the police and making
false accusations against me.”
Mrs Harris drove from her home in Barry, South
Wales, to her husband’s new home about six miles away and she took
with her his old SIM card. As she sat near his house, so that the
signal could be traced to his address, she put the card in her phone
and sent herself four messages.
Mr Harris subsequently appeared before a
magistrates’ court and the Crown Court, where he denied making
threats against his wife. The charges were dropped after Orange
checked its records and found that the texts had been sent from
Jennifer Harris’s handset using his SIM card.
Yesterday her barrister, James Cranfield, told
Judge Philip Richards that his client had had a long history of
health problems.
Sentencing was adjourned for four weeks for
reports.
Outside court, Mr Harris, the director of a
commercial vehicle repair workshop, said that his former wife had
used the card from an old phone that he had kept in a bedside table.
He said: “The first I knew of it was when officers called at the
house. It left me in a terrible state. I was taken to court for
something I hadn’t done.
“I’m sad that things have ended up this way
between Jennifer and me, especially for the kids, but I just want to
put it all behind me now.”
After the case Jennifer Harris said: “I’ve got
nothing to say. I’ve been to court and pleaded guilty.”
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