A cleaner at a mental health facility engaged in a three month long affair with a vulnerable patient and then falsely accused him of rape, a court has heard.
Julie Lott, 51, of Villiers Street, Burnley, worked as a facilities manager at a Merseyside mental health facility during 2021. Gerald Baxter, prosecuting, detailed that the cleaner began to have sex with a patient with learning difficulties in the middle of 2021.
A court heard that the affair came to light after a member of staff pressed the emergency button after walking in on Lott and the victim, and she was pulling up her trousers and acting suspiciously. The victim was dressed, but the worker could see half of his underpants.
