Strange story - and strange reactions

The known 'facts' of the story are as follows:

• A woman phones a female friend and tells her she has just been raped by a friend of her husband.
• Said friends tells a man who knows the husband in question and the alleged rapist
• Husband goes round to the man's house with a friend and a brick and a mallet and beats the man unconscious.
• The police - not unnaturally - arrest the two men

The 'full' story is on www.the-spearhead.com As it correctly states no one knows what happened. What I really take issue with is the suggestion in the article that if the woman was lying she should be arrested and charged with assault. I had to read it twice and both times my reaction was WHAT!!!!!