A woman who was charged with falsely accusing a Bolt cab driver with sexually assault has been granted bail.

She had spent two weeks remanded in custody.

The 45-year old company executive had booked a cab at around 3am, on the way back home to St. Paul’s Bay, earlier this month.

Later, she claimed that the driver stopped in Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq and raped her.

When faced with the allegations, the driver denied the rape, and said that she had given him consent.

“‘I really enjoy talking to you, I want to hug you,’ she said. Then she kissed me, and asked me to go somewhere to speak a bit more and turn the car off. She then removed her clothes…The next day, I hear that she made a complaint about me, and that I had to go to the police station,” the driver had exclusively told Lovin Malta.

Furthermore, the authorities found evidence, through the GPS tracking data from the cab, that the driver had taken a different trip than the one the woman had described.

At the court arraignment, the woman was charged with accusing the man of a crime she knew he did not commit, taking a false oath and fabricating evidence, and therefore, was denied bail and held in custody for almost two weeks.

However, after the driver’s testimony, in court, Magistrate Astrid May Grima accepted the accused’s second request for bail against a €3,000 deposit, a €10,000 personal guarantee, and a curfew.