Arrest over false rape complaint

Dunedin police arrested an 18-year-old woman last night for allegedly making a false complaint of rape.

The woman was arrested at a Glen address after she had rung police to claim a woman was being raped at another address, Senior Sergeant Steve Aitken, of Dunedin, said last night.

''We will most certainly be pressing charges,'' Snr Sgt Aitken said.

''Obviously a complaint like that has to be taken seriously, and we dispatched half a dozen police officers to the scene, who gained entry and found no offending had taken place.''

The woman would appear in the Dunedin District Court today, he said. 

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