"The prosecution was unable to satisfy Judge Jeffreys that the liar was Matthews, despite the fact her friend, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib, alleged to radio 2GB's Chris Smith on Tuesday that he had accompanied her to the police station to lodge the complaint."
Crimes Act 1900
318 Making or using false official instrument to pervert the course of justice
(1) In this section:"official instrument" means an instrument of a kind that is made or issued by a person in his or her capacity as a public officer or by a judicial tribunal.
(2) A person who makes a false official instrument, or who makes a copy of an instrument which the person knows to be a false official instrument, with the intention that:
(a) he or she or another person will use it to induce another person to accept the instrument as genuine or to accept the copy as a copy of a genuine official instrument, and
(b) that acceptance will pervert the course of justice,
is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.
(3) A person who uses an instrument which the person knows to be a false official instrument, or who uses a copy of an instrument which the person knows to be a false official instrument, with the intention:
(a) of inducing another person to accept the instrument as genuine or to accept the copy as a copy of a genuine official instrument, and
(b) of thereby perverting the course of justice,
is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.
(4) Section 250 applies to the interpretation of this section.
319 General offence of perverting the course of justice
A person who does any act, or makes any omission, intending in any way to pervert the course of justice, is liable to imprisonment for 14 years.
342 Certain conspiracy offences not affected
The abolition of the common law offence of conspiring to pervert the course of justice does not prevent a prosecution for an offence of conspiring to commit an offence against this Part.
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