Former councillor Sharon Taylor made false rape claims against her postman husband (Picture: SWNS)
A cheating wife who made false rape claims against her husband after he refused to do household chores has been spared jail.
Sharon Taylor, 61, vowed to ‘destroy’ her husband David following the collapse of their 21-year marriage.
He moved out of their semi-detached home in Malvern, Worcestershire, last year after she admitted having an affair.
A court heard Taylor then bombarded her estranged husband with abusive ‘non-stop’ messages demanding he continue to carry out household chores.
Between March and April this year she sent him 216 messages including one branding him a ‘robotic Nazi’.
Taylor dodged jail despite making up the rape claims (Picture: SWNS)
She lied to her husband’s colleagues over rape claims (Picture: SWNS)
Taylor then went to the post office where he worked and lied to his boss, claiming he had raped her over a number of years.
She continued to hound her husband and threatened to report him to the police for rape unless he quit his job.
Judge Martin Jackson said: ‘False allegations of rape are extremely unsettling.
‘Threatening to make an allegation that is untrue is a very serious matter.’
The judge said it was a ‘sad case’ and he recognised the offending had been committed when Taylor was in emotional turmoil.
Taylor, a former Independent who was elected to Malvern Town Council, began her vile campaign against her husband last year.
Michael Aspinall, prosecuting, said: ‘She told her husband David Taylor she had an affair, which caused their 21-year marriage to collapse.
‘After Mr Taylor moved out of the marital home she sent messages non-stop to him.’
Mr Aspinall said Taylor also sent messages asking him for money and to do domestic chores, forcing him to have to remind her the relationship was over.
She also visited the post office where Mr Taylor worked telling a manager she was concerned about female members of staff.
She falsely claimed Mr Taylor had raped her for many years.
After the manager told her to report this to the police, Taylor replied she wouldn’t as ‘it would hurt my political career’.
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Mr Aspinall said: ‘The next day she messaged the manager saying she wanted to retract what she had said and their separation affected her mental health.’
The prosecutor said the victim worried if he had been arrested for the fake claim, he would have been vilified and would have lost his job.
Richard Hull, defending, said she had been going through a mental breakdown and struggled to accept the marriage was over.
Mr Hull said: ‘It was her last roll of the dice – it wasn’t for financial reward..
‘She turned to more desperate measures. She is deeply remorseful for what happened.’
She was found guilty of stalking and blackmail charges when she appeared at Worcester Crown Court on Monday.
Taylor, of Meadow Road, Malvern, wept in the dock when she was sentenced to a total of two years and three months, suspended for two years.
She was also ordered to complete 30 days rehabilitation and slapped with a restraining order, banning her from contacting her husband.
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She branded her husband a ‘robotic Nazi’ in one of the 216 messages he was bombarded with.