JOYCE COOK — One Sick Puppy

September 12, 1985: Late at night, serial false rape accuser Joyce Cook turns up at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
The first image below is from The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, October 15, 1985, page 3. I found it May 22, 2023 and added it to this page the following day. The first entry for this woman (the third one on this page) was added June 13, 2016 – the day the Timeline opened.
As can be seen from the first article, at the time of this Huddersfield Infirmary business, she was just 23 years old but had already made 41 (forty-one) false allegations of rape!

June 20, 1987: Joyce Cook tells Aberdeen police she was raped in a lorry somewhere in the city. The article below appeared in the Press and Journal, July 16, 1987, page 3. It reveals that in addition to that false allegation she had two previous convictions for wasting police time.
October 26, 1989: A homeless woman with the name Kathleen Cook turns up at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy claiming to have been raped. This was the last entry to be added to this page, on June 18, 2025. I found it shortly before this date.
Initially, I thought it was a different woman but here she used her middle name, which does appear to be Kathleen or perhaps Katherine rather than Catherine. A woman with the name Joyce K. Cook was born at Lambeth in September quarter 1962. I could find nothing close so that appears to be her. What can I say but she is a sad case?

February 21, 1996: Joyce Cook walks into Inverurie police office where she accusers her stepfather and his brother of raping her. She soons retracts. When she appears in court her address is given as Newcastle. She should have stayed there.
The article immediately below was published in the Aberdeen Evening Express (City Latest), March 14, 1996, page 19. Check out her lengthy and eclectic criminal record.

Fast forward two and a half years, when, unbelievably, she makes yet another false rape allegation, this time in the West Country. The article below appeared on the front page, pages 2 & 3 of the (Torquay) Herald Express for July 31, 1998.

Below: No messing about this time, no remanding on bail or even in custody for reports; false allegation July 29, and two days later it is reported she had been jailed for two months. An interesting revelation here is that her stepfather had indeed been convicted of abusing her, although it does not say if this abuse was sexual or purely physical. If the former, this begs the question, was she lying then as now?

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