Given the complainant's history of making false accusations TPTB screwed up by deciding to proceed with a prosecution against the OP. She was obviously a serial grifter looking to get some victims-of-crime compo and they should have seen through her. Clearly, the OP deserves financial compensation for having his life wrecked.
Unfortunately, the OP's case is not unique at all. Mick Shepherd, (a registered antique firearms dealer) with a spotless record did 10 months on remand in Belmarsh Prison before being found not guilty and released. He was obviously innocent because it was proved in Court that the Metropolitan Police did not even understand the legal definition of an antique-obsolete-calibre-firearm and they made numerous other false allegations against him to the media when he was arrested, which were reported on the national TV news and in sensationalist detail by the tabloid press:
'...After 10 months of being held in custody for crimes he did not commit, Mick Shepherd was released without charge. The members of the Jury at The Old Bailey found him not guilty on every single charge and accusation thrown at him.
The eminent Judge Rennie released him from court back to his family and friends in the same standing that he was in before being falsely arrested and imprisoned. Judge Rennie said Mick Shepherd shall return to society without a blemish to his name and with no criminal record, he has done nothing wrong and so released a free and innocent man.
Judge Rennie also said that all of Mick Shepherd's personal belongings [antique firearms] shall be returned to him immediately, this is something that Operation Trident still have not complied with...'
'...Where was Operation Trident's evidence? they made some very serious allegations to the media at the time of the false arrest, but when we got to The Old Bailey, there was no evidence, they had nothing to back up these allegations... it was all just lies and manufactured false evidence blown completely apart by Lord Ian Glen Q.C....'
Quotes source:
http://www.micksguns.com/mick's story - the facts.htm
Don't ever trust the Police or CPS.