A RAPIST'S girlfriend set up false Facebook accounts pretending his victims had admitted making the allegations up in a desperate bid to free him.
Jason Savage, 29, may never be released from prison after he was found guilty of a string of horrendous sex crimes.
But following his conviction at Hull Crown Court, his girlfriend Ceri Shipman, 25, set up Facebook accounts in the names of two of his victims. She used them to post comments claiming they had lied about the offences to get Savage locked up. Shipman told Humberside Police the women had made the allegations up and directed them to the Facebook pages.
The two victims – who Savage had forced into the trauma of giving evidence at court after denying the offences – were arrested and questioned by detectives for a total of 13 hours.
But Shipman's lies were eventually exposed and she has now pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.
The region's most senior judge, Michael Mettyear, told the mum-of-one she will be jailed.
He told Shipman: "This case will be adjourned for a report from the Probation Service.
"You should be aware this is a very serious matter and expect and plan for a custodial sentence."
The women were placed on police bail for four months as officers investigated Shipman's false claims, which were made six months after Savage was jailed indefinitely.
She had accessed their real Facebook accounts and copied pictures and profiles from them to make the fake ones look genuine.
Shipman pretended they had sent her messages including: "Maybe I did make up the rape but he broke my heart", "Glad I met up with all them, we had a right good chat before court and look where it got him", "You should have met up with us, lied and got comp" and "Maybe we did lie but nothing you can do about it".
Shipman, of Eastfield Road, west Hull, replied to the fake messages, posting: "See what I mean, you lied and you just admitted it, how can you live with yourself".
When police seized her computer they found images of the victims on it.
Savage, of Ferensway, Hull city centre, was branded "cold, calculating and sadistic" after his conviction. Hull Crown Court heard he repeatedly beat his girlfriends and raped three other victims over a nine-year period.
The control freak, who dated several women at once, stabbed one of his girlfriends and made her clean up her own blood, telling her he would kill her if she did not.
The former boxer was eventually found unanimously guilty of three counts of rape, three counts of causing grievous bodily harm to two of his victims, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and indecent assault.
Shipman will be sentenced next month.
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