Woman denies false gang-rape claim

A judge has asked police to disclose their grounds for charging a Christchurch woman with making a false gang-rape complaint, when he considers her application for continued name suppression on Thursday.

The woman maintains that the gang-rape did occur and entered a not guilty plea to the false complaint charge in Christchurch District Court today.

She also denied having a knife in her possession at Christchurch Central Police Station a month after the allegation of rape arising from an incident that began at Corsair Bay...