How's this for false allegation?

What a story this is! Nothing like getting someone to do the dirty work for you - the woman in this case, Ann Draper, initiated the harrassment.

A GP and a village undertaker are facing jail after admitting an eight-month campaign of threats, intimidation and sexual allegations to terrify and discredit a Church of England vicar.

Ann Draper, a funeral director, and her doctor boyfriend Desmin O'Callaghan bombarded the vicar with threatening letters ranging from the sinister to the bizarre.

The vicar, who a judge ruled should not be named, had the wheel nuts on his car loosened, his tyres slashed while he celebrated midnight Mass, pornographic magazines left on his car and white powder sent to his home.

The vicar, plus friends, relatives and a local newspaper were sent dozens of letters alleging that he was a paedophile and was having affairs with parishioners.

The pair even hatched a plan to drug him with Viagra to embarrass him socially.

The vicar, a former policeman, said the abusive letters - up to four a day - came out of the blue and there was no basis for the allegations.

The first, which he received at his home in October 2003, claimed to be from a prostitute demanding payment.

A month later a letter warned: "You ought to take better care of yourself, make sure you live long enough to repent all your sins."

"Vengeance is mine, said the Lord," read another. "We'll be waiting for you, fatty f***face. Get started repenting your immortal soul."

Threatening messages were also left on his mobile telephone. One, which was recorded at midnight on Christmas Day 2003, said: "Hello fatty, it's payback time motherf*****."

O'Callaghan, 47, even sent threatening letters to himself in an attempt to fool police. The pair were caught after letters to himself and the vicar were found on O'Callaghan's computer.

Police also found a file containing suggestions of how to abuse the vicar, which O'Callaghan claimed were ideas for a novel he planned to write.

These included injecting the vicar with adrenalin to cause a heart attack and subscribing to gay magazines which would be sent to his home for his wife to find.

It's still unclear what triggered Draper to do this...

He said he had known Draper for 13 years, both socially and through her work as a partner of Hollowell & Son funeral directors. He officiated at her wedding and baptised her two children. But he had no idea who was targeting him. He had never met O'Callaghan.