A transgender woman who falsely accused six men of rape has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.
Khloe Simmonds was sentenced for eight counts of perverting the course of justice on Monday, over the allegations made against her victims between 2018 and 2026.
The 26-year-old spent hundreds of hours with police officers over the false claims of serious sexual assault, portraying herself as the victim, Harrow Crown Court heard.
At the peak of the offending, Simmonds was responsible for 2.5 per cent of sexual assault allegations in Harrow, west London.
Several men accused of rape were also arrested and detained before they were released.
Sentencing Simmonds to seven and a half years in prison, Judge John Lodge said: ‘You repeatedly made false allegations of rape between July 2018 and January 2026. This was a sustained pattern of conduct, not isolated incidents.’
The judge added that Simmonds’s conduct impacted the resources available to help ‘genuine victims of serious crime’.
A pre-operative transgender person, Simmonds was referred to using female pronouns during the hearing, the court heard.
She initially attended the sentencing by video link from HMP Wormwood Scrubs in west London but then returned to her cell and refused to return.
Prosecutor Ben Temple said that in 2018, Simmonds claimed an Afghan national held her at knife-point and orally raped her.
The man was quickly identified and arrested before he spent the following 88 days under police investigation.
He vehemently denied the allegations and said it was Simmonds who had made advances towards him, which he rejected.
Four years later in February 2022, Simmonds alleged that a chef, who she met on the dating app Grindr, raped her.
She invited her date back to her flat where the pair began drinking but the man decided to leave because he felt uncomfortable.
After he left, Simmonds proceeded to call 999 alleging rape and even implied he had spiked her drink.
Police officers arrested the man outside of his home and he told them that while he was at the flat, he went to the toilet and returned to find that his beer smelled of whisky.
In his victim impact statement, he described the arrest process, including spending 20 hours at a police station as ‘humiliating’.
Just one month later, Simmonds returned home in a taxi after a date and again called 999, claiming she had been raped by the driver.
But data from the vehicle obtained by police showed the taxi had never travelled less than 25 miles per hour or stopped.
Mr Temple added that this evidence ‘annihilated the allegation’ and Simmonds was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
The court also heard that Simmonds admitted that the allegation of rape were false.
‘In police interview she admitted the falsity of her allegation. She admitted being very drunk. She admitted she had lied,’ Mr Temple said.
In the taxi driver’s victim impact statement, the man said he found the entire ordeal ‘traumatic’.
In June that year, Simmonds went on another date with a musician she met on Grindr, who was again accused of rape.
Together, the pair drank alcohol and returned to her home where the man felt tired and asked to rest on her sofa.
While he rested and fell asleep, Simmonds called the police and claimed he had orally raped her, despite there being no sexual contact, the court heard.
He was then arrested but insisted he had not raped her, telling police: ‘I am an innocent man.’
In his victim impact statement, the musician said: ‘I find it deeply distressing that an innocent person could be subjected to such a traumatic process because of a deliberate lie.’
Simmonds also claimed she was raped by an unknown man on three occasions in November 2025 and on three separate occasions by another man between December 2018 and February 2022.
One victim said the false allegations ended his relationship, stopped his family from speaking to him and made himself try to take his own life three times.
In January, Simmonds claimed she had been raped on a bench by a man she met that evening.
She approached a group of strangers and told them that she was in an ‘abusive situation’ but CCTV footage exonerated the man after it showed no such assault, the court heard.
Dominic Benthall, mitigating, said Simmonds has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and suffered longstanding issues of alcohol dependency.
‘There is plainly, or was plainly, at the time an underlying mental health difficulty,’ he said.
Simmonds previously pleaded guilty to eight counts of tending and intending to pervert the course of public justice.
She was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for perverting the course of justice at Harrow Crown Court on Monday, September 7.
