A NORTH-EAST woman accused a married couple of rape – after her boyfriend found out she’d had a three-in-a-bed romp with them.

Hannah McWhirter, 21, engaged in the midnight mnage-a-trois with a friend and her husband.

She even exchanged texts with the couple after their threesome telling them how much she enjoyed herself.

But she soon changed her tune when the husband told her boyfriend about their steamy hook-up and claimed she had been raped.

McWhirter appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court today where she admitted wasting police time with false rape claims.

Fiscal depute Elaine Ward: “The couple and the accused spent a lot of time together socially. The nature of their relationship became more intimate and in June 2013 they discussed having a threesome and booking a hotel for that purpose.”

The court heard that on July 13 the three met up and engaged in a night of passion in a Travelodge in Aberdeen – while McWhirter’s boyfriend was on a night out, oblivious to what was going on.

Mrs Ward said: “On the following day the accused and [her friend] exchanged several text messages saying that they had both enjoyed the previous night.”

The fiscal depute said McWhirter and the couple continued to meet socially and appeared “happy” in each other’s company.

However, the court heard, things took a turn for the worse several months later.

Mrs Ward said: “On October 11, the accused’s boyfriend was standing outside her place of work when [the husband] advised him of the threesome and showed him text messages from the accused.

“This later resulted in the accused being confronted by her boyfriend.

“She initially denied that the incident had taken place, then admitted it but said it was forced.”

The court heard their relationship ended and McWhirter, of Banff, returned to live with her mother – continuing to claim that the couple had raped her.

Police then started investigating her claims.

McWhirter claimed she had been on a night out with friends before bumping into the couple.

Mrs Ward said: “She stated that at the end of the night she had to use the bathroom so went to their hotel room and then gave police details of a forcible rape.”

The couple were interviewed under caution by police on October 16.

However McWhirter’s friends did not back up her night out story.

And after a further mobile phone analysis took place in November 2013, McWhirter admitted she had been a willing participant in the threesome.

Yesterday she admitted wasting police time and rendering the couple to suspicion under the sexual offences act between October 13 and November 14, 2013.

Sheriff Graham Buchanan deferred sentence until next month for the preparation of reports.

McWhirter, who was released on bail, wept as she left the dock.