by Paul Hooper

A heavily pregnant woman has been jailed for four years after hatching "a wicked plot" to frame an innocent ex-lover.

Malicious Rebecca Tooze, 35, arranged for a vile photograph depicting a naked child in a bondage harness to be slipped into the car of a man against whom she held a grudge.

Then another boyfriend, long-distance lorry driver James Willis, 37, made an anonymous phone call to the police in September 2010 claiming the same man had had offered him child porn pictures in Deal High Street.

Now Tooze, who has moved from Dover to Bridgewater in Somerset, will give birth to her child in prison after admitting conspiring to pervert the course of justice - on the day her trial was expected to start.

The victim - who cannot be named for legal reasons, faced losing his career and his liberty, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

Tooze dreamed up her "prolonged, malicious and perverted plot " after her relationship with the ex-lover "turned toxic".

She recruited Willis to carry out the plan to make child porn pictures involving a two year old baby and while the victim was at work - broke into his parked car...and planted the 'evidence'.

Then hours later Willis made his secret call to police naming the man.

But the victim discovered the porn stash in the back seat of his car and reported it to his superiors and to detectives.

Police then uncovered Tooze's evil plot - by tracking forensic evidence from a car accident to the home of Willis in Manorfield, Ashford.

Although Tooze denied an intimate relationship with Willis - detectives found her DNA on bondage equipment which also appeared in the top Level Five porn images of a child - photographed from the neck down.

And inside Willis' computer, forensic experts discovered he had printed adult pornographic images from two internet sites, "Rape Stories 3D" and "Ravished Bride" - which were also planted in the victim's car.

Prosecutor Paul Valder said a search of the house also revealed a script - in Tooze's handwriting - of the anonymous phone call to police made by Willis.

In jailing Tooze and Willis to four years in prison, Judge Adele Williams told them: "This was truly wicked behaviour by both of you and one of the worst examples of perverting the course of justice there could be.

"You planted child pornography in the back of the car of an innocent man. You two hatched the plot to discredit him."

Tooze, she said, had acted out of "calculation and malice and selfish self-interest."

The judge revealed that Tooze had previously made allegations of rape against her ex-lover - which had also been rejected by a court.

"If this plot have succeeded you would have ruined his life," she added.
Paul Jarvis, for Tooze, who remained impassive throughout the hearing, said she had been diagnosed with Histrionic Personality Disorder.

He said she will now give birth to her child in jail.