A female police officer and domestic violence mentor is facing prison after falsely claiming her ex-partner was abusing her. Amanda Aston, a constable based at Guildford police station in Surrey, was said to have “embellished and exaggerated” difficulties in her relationship with Matthew Taylor, a sergeant in the same force. Aston, 43, was found guilty on Thursday of two offences of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud at Maidstone Crown Court, Kent. Mr Taylor was arrested in 2017 and charged with controlling coercive behaviour. He was later remanded in jail for two months and eventually lost his job with Surrey Police. It was after his mother trawled his social media accounts and phone messages that he was eventually released from Winchester Prison, where he had spent 23 hours a day locked in a cell, and the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case against him. During Aston’s trial, the jury heard that she made false allegations of his “control

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