Innocent man spent seven hours in police cell after family member framed him as a sex offender

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George Jones set up a fake Facebook account to frame his victim



A man spent a traumatic seven hours in a police cell and then weeks under investigation accused of sending sexual images of children – before it was realised he was entirely innocent.

The Facebook account used to send the child pornography had been set up and used by someone with a grudge against him in a deliberate bid to get him jailed for something he had not done.

But vindictive George Jones’s plan backfired - and at Warwick Crown Court he was himself ordered to register as a sex offender as a judge jailed him for a total of four years.

Jones, 40, of Cooks Close, Atherstone, had pleaded guilty to doing acts intended to pervert the course of justice and making and distributing indecent images of children.

Jailing Jones, Recorder Martin Butterworth told him: "I have to deal with you for three offences. Of course, they are associated with each-other, but each of them are significantly serious offences of their type.

"You bore a grudge against someone you had known for ten years, but there was nothing in your belief that this man owed you money or that he had in some way made a play towards your wife.

"But this seems to have produced in you a bitterness and induced a determination to punish this man, and you settled on a sophisticated and determined method to shame him by having him arrested and then imprisoned for offences which you were in fact committing yourself in order to get him sent to prison.

"You posted the gravest indecent images of children in order to achieve what you had aimed, to ruin his life.

"Fortunately the police were able to investigate and move in on you and discover what you had done, and eventually it was made clear that he was innocent of any crime."