A mother who fabricated rape allegations against ten men has had her jail term increased by two-and-a-half years after senior judges ruled the original sentence was “unduly lenient”.

Stacey Sharples, 31, made false reports that led to men being detained at police stations, losing jobs and relationships, and being kept apart from their children.

Between 2013 and 2019, when she was aged between 18 and 24, Sharples met the men from Greater Manchester through Facebook and the dating apps Plenty of Fish and Badoo.

She pleaded guilty to ten counts of perverting the course of justice at Bolton Crown Court in March and was initially sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison.

After the Attorney General referred the case to the Court of Appeal, judges on Wednesday increased Sharples’ sentence to seven years.

An estimated 264 hours of police time and around £50,000 was wasted in months-long investigations, the court heard.

Sharples repeated her allegations in lengthy video-recorded interviews but police found many inconsistencies in her accounts. 

One of Sharples’s victims Kaylum Davis, now 28, from Oldham previously described her sentence as a ‘joke’. 

He told the Daily Mail: ‘She ought to receive the same sentence as a man would if he was convicted of rape – seven or eight years, or more.’

Kaylum was left on bail for 18 months, wondering if he would be charged or even jailed after Sharples claimed that he had raped her.

He recalled: ‘I was in shock. I was with my friends, so they all knew about it. I was taken to a cell and held for hours. My mum had to be present at the interview, because I was only 16, and she was very upset.’

Sharples, from Farnworth in Bolton, appeared at the London court on Wednesday by video link from HMP Styal in Cheshire.

Lord Justice Popplewell, sitting with Mr Justice Linden and Mrs Justice Hill, said: ‘The allegations were of extremely serious conduct all involving rape, and in some cases multiple rapes with serious violence and threats.

‘Had the victims been convicted, their sentences would in total have been very lengthy indeed.’

He said false rape allegations undermine real victims of rape and have a serious effect ‘on the minds of the public who may be called as jurors, which may cause doubts in the mind where none should exist’.

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The judge said Sharples ‘lured’ one victim to a shop so he could be arrested in public and told another ‘watch what happens now’ after he refused her advances.

She told one victim: ‘They’re not pressing charges, I’ve got away with it yet again.’

Julia Faure Walker, representing the Attorney General, said the sentencing judge had not increased the sentence enough to reflect the number of victims.

She said: ‘This case clearly falls into the category of causing not just some distress or impact, but serious distress or impact.

‘The vast majority were arrested, spent time in custody and remained under investigation for months.’

Hunter Gray, representing Sharples, said the original sentence had been reduced due to Sharples’ mental health and lack of intellect – which the judge decided constituted a learning disability.

He said Sharples ‘accepts responsibility’ but ‘still struggles to understand why she did what she did’.

During the original sentencing, the judge had described Sharples as a ‘sexual predator’ who sought out ‘sexual encounters with males with whom you have had no real relationships’.

The judge said she then ‘bombarded’ the men with ‘out of proportion’ expressions of love and if they did not respond she reported them for rape.

Sharples did have consensual sex with five of the men, one in the homeless hostel where she was living, before she accused them of rape.

The first offence, when she was 18, began when she told her father that a 16-year-old boy had threatened her with a knife and forced her to perform oral sex.

Sharples, who falsely claimed one victim was her boyfriend, told a psychiatrist she did not know why she stopped her offending but said it coincided with the Covid pandemic and her meeting her current partner in 2022.

Attorney General Ellie Reeves said: ‘Stacey Sharples lied, repeatedly and deliberately, causing significant harm to 10 victims and wasting hundreds of hours of police time that should have gone towards supporting genuine victims.

‘Rare cases like this must not discourage genuine victims from coming forward. Every report of rape is rightly taken seriously and treated with the care it deserves.

‘Anyone who seeks to exploit or undermine genuine acts of violence against women and girls must be held to account. I thank the police for their diligence in uncovering the truth, and my thoughts remain with the victims who were falsely accused.’

A British woman has spoken publicly about what she describes as a nightmare endured by her family after her husband was allegedly seized and subjected to severe torture by Saudi authorities.

Businessman Rami Naimi, his family says, was travelling back from a business trip in Australia with his father when he was taken in Dubai in 2017.

The father-of-three, whose father is former Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi, was arrested again in 2022 and held for two years before being handed a six-year prison sentence last year after what relatives describe as a secret trial.

His first detention coincided with the high-profile Ritz-Carlton crackdown in Riyadh in November 2017, when Saudi political figures, royals and business leaders were rounded up under what officials presented as an anti-corruption drive.

Now breaking their silence as they launch a campaign to secure his release and bring him home, Mr Naimi’s family allege he has suffered appalling abuse in custody, including electrocution and waterboarding.

His wife Mira Lozi, who is battling cancer, said during the launch in London that she has had to keep quiet since 2017 to secure her husband’s release, and described the last nine years as a ‘nightmare’.

Breaking her silence, she revealed how, following his 2017 abduction, her husband was blindfolded and forcibly taken by car to Abu Dhabi and then by private jet to Saudi Arabia, where he was held at the Ritz-Carlton and tortured, electrocuted, waterboarded and psychologically abused for three months. 

Now, in an interview with the Daily Mail, Mrs Lozi has opened up about how she feared for her own life when her husband was first taken in 2017.

Mrs Lozi, who was living in Dubai at the time of her husband’s first detention, says: ‘I lived my life [feeling] terrified, looking over my shoulder. What’s going to happen next? Who’s behind me? You know, am I going to be taken? And for what? Absolutely nothing. We had no idea what was happening. We were just walking like ghosts.’

Such was the family’s fear that when Mr Naimi was released three months later and placed under house arrest – after being forced to sign a ‘settlement agreement’ pledging to surrender £200million – that they felt too unsafe to visit him.

‘We were terrified. We were very scared for our own safety. So we had to decide if it was safe enough to visit him’, says Mr Naimi’s son, Ali, who was just 12 years old at the time of his father’s detention. 

‘It was…like my dad was still abducted,’ the now-21-year-old adds. 

Ali also spoke about the emotional toll his father’s detention had on him at such a young age, describing how the ordeal forced him to grow up early. 

‘I’m sure you can imagine how difficult it is for a 12-year-old to know these details about his family,’ he says.

‘I’ve been traumatised for my whole childhood. I basically lived a life without my father. I know more of my life without my father than I do with.’

The family were eventually able to visit Mr Naimi, but they say contact with him was limited after he was placed under electronic surveillance and banned from leaving Saudi Arabia. 

They add that Mr Naimi was left with emotional scars from his experience. 

‘He doesn’t want me to know these horrific details,’ Ali says: ‘And of course, he’s very traumatised.

‘He’s a different man from who he was before he was taken. So at some points, he would share details out of anger… he’s a very damaged person after what happened to him,’ he adds.

The family were forced to relive their nightmare in 2022, when Naimi disappeared once again for nearly two years.  

‘He got a phone call, and they told him that there’s a problem with his ankle bracelet and that they’re going to come and fix it. And he disappeared,’ Mrs Lozi says. 

During this time, he was subjected to further torture and emotional and psychological abuse.

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Meanwhile, his family went through the agonising pain of not knowing if he was alive or dead. 

Recalling those two difficult years, Ali says: ‘[It was] much worse, because I wasn’t 12 anymore. I was 17. I knew what was going on. 

‘I knew the possibilities of his ill treatment. And I knew that this was going to be tough, and it was going to be a lot harder than it was when I was younger. And I was right.’

The family learned in 2024 that he was being held in Saudi’s notorious Al Ha’ir prison. He was released in March last year but has remained under house arrest, while his family continued to feel his absence.

‘I was traumatised, and I had to go through a lot without my father. And it wasn’t just me. My sisters had to go through the same,’ Ali says. 

‘My sister graduated from university. I graduated from high school. All my friends were getting career help from their dads.

‘They were asking their dads. They looked up to their fathers, and they wanted to ask them about career advice and what [universities] to go to. So I was deprived of that.

‘And my eldest sister was deprived of her father at her wedding. She’s now having a baby.’

It was after his release in March 2025 that he learned of charges against him claiming he had ‘exploited’ his father’s official influence. 

Mr Naimi also faced allegations that he acted as an agent for a US company in Saudi Arabia and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment after a secret trial. 

He is now facing a second trial over his internet activity while being held at the Ritz-Carlton in 2017.

Mr Naimi has been accused of following social media accounts that are critical of Saudi Arabia, for which, if convicted, he faces up to 20 years behind bars. 

He and his family deny the allegations and say the claims are unfair. 

They are now calling for action from the UK, US and EU governments to ensure his release. 

‘We want to see political pressure, and we want them to raise the question with Saudi at the highest level and to help secure our father’s release.

‘It’s a completely unfair issue. And it’s against the rule of law and international law. We would like governments and the EU and the US to hear our story and to help us bring Rami home,’ says Ali.

‘It could happen to any British family. And I think it’s, I mean, we are British, and I think it’s, you know, it should, I mean, my Prime Minister Andy Burnham should really put that on his highest priority, just to bring Rami back home and to do the correct thing,’ Mrs Lozi adds.

According to Mr Naimi’s family, he is unaware of their decision to go public about his ordeal, because their contact with him is so monitored. 

Mrs Lozi says she spent years terrified to speak up over fears that it would compromise her husband’s release. 

But now, she says she feels like she has no other choice.

‘The proceedings are just not going the way they should, and nobody is really paying attention or reading. 

She adds that her ongoing battle with cancer also played a part in her decision to share her family’s story.

‘I don’t know how much I have left, you know. So I guess that was the cherry on top for my kids to get their father back.’

One of the two pilots who survived Sunday’s fatal Amazon Prime cargo jet crash at Miami International Airport had previously highlighted his focus on safety and careful decision-making during his aviation career, according to a LinkedIn profile reviewed by the Daily Mail.

First Officer Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, was named as one of the pilots on board, along with Captain Joseph Carroll, 55, when the aircraft veered off the runway in a crash that killed five people.

On LinkedIn, Silva described himself as a pilot who excels in “dynamic environments where professionalism, communication and sound decision making are essential.”

“I remain committed to advancing my aviation career while contributing to safe, efficient and high-performing flight operations,” he wrote.

Silva, who was taken to hospital and later released, also wrote that his “professional foundation combines technical expertise, operational experience, and a strong commitment to safety, continuous improvement and teamwork.”

The Colombian-born commercial pilot moved from his native Bogota to Miami, where he built a life with his now wife Lorena Arevalo.

And social media posts reveal how Silva even used his passion for aviation to pull off an elaborate proposal to Arevalo six years ago. 

Photos show he flew over to reveal a massive ‘MARRY ME’ sign spelled out on the lawn, before getting down on bended knee on the tarmac. 

The couple later posed with champagne and the new rock on his then-fiancée’s finger, alongside a light aircraft. 

He even documented the romantic surprise in a nine-minute video titled ‘A proposal to remember in the air,’ and teasing in the caption: ‘she has no idea what is about to happen.’

The footage shows the couple buckled up in the plane and taking off, flying in the clear south Florida skies until he made his bride-to-be look down – where she spotted the marry me sign and was overcome, tearfully repeating, ‘te amo, te amo (I love you).’

Silva and Arevalo tied the knot two years later, with the groom commenting on a picture of his bride in her wedding dress: ‘I love you my beautiful doll.’

Other Facebook images offer glimpses into the couple’s life together in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood and other locations – while another shows Arevalo showing off a baby bump in April 2025.

Meanwhile, Silva further describes his professional background on LinkedIn as ‘diverse in flight instruction, passenger and cargo operations, aviation safety, and aeronautical education.’

He says he gained an aeronautical engineering degree from his native Colombia and now combines his commercial flying with continuing to study aeronautical science at Miami Dade College ‘with only a few courses remaining toward graduation.’ 

It is unclear when his profile was last updated.

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‘Currently, I serve as a First Officer on the Boeing 767-300, supporting domestic and international cargo operations for major logistics partners including Amazon Air, DHL, and Cargojet,’ he says.

Both Silva and Carroll were hospitalized after the aircraft crashed while trying to land on Sunday – but have since been released.

Earlier on Tuesday, the five victims, who were traveling on the ground in a van, were identified as Rolando Aleman, 55, Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53, Julio C Pineda, 75, Carlos Acosta Fajardo, 53, and Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47.

The aircraft slammed into the vehicle and then onto a local street where it destroyed an SUV. It is unclear how many people were in the SUV. 

The five victims were part of a group of seven passengers traveling in a van owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp., a contract cleaning company for airline companies, NBC News reported.

Three other people are still hospitalized, according to authorities. 

Eugenio Corredor, 79, and Ridoel Averhoff Diaz, 32, who were passengers in the van, are in critical condition. Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres, 36, who was on the ground, is in stable condition.

The plane was arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico – the aircraft’s third trip of the day, according to Homendy.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation, but a preliminary report by the Federal Aviation Administration found that the airport is not equipped with the Engineered Materials Arresting System that has been installed at more than 120 airports nationwide.

The system places beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway to help bring planes that overshoot the tarmac safely to a stop, the agency said.

Homendy said the plane overshot the runway, making it about 1,300ft past the paved surface.

Terrifying dispatch audio obtained by the Daily Mail revealed the horrific moment rescuers counted the dead after the crash.

‘This aircraft overran the runway and crossed 67th Avenue. It struck a truck,’ one emergency responder said, according to the audio.

‘We do have a patient on the ground. We’re looking at surveilling the area for more patients.’