How woman's false rape and trafficking claims about 'Asian grooming gang' ... trends now

Eleanor Williams sparked outrage in the Cumbrian town of Barrow when she claimed on social media she had been groomed, trafficked and beaten, in May 2020.

Posting pictures of her bruised and beaten body, the 22-year-old said she had been the victim of an Asian grooming gang in the port town 'for years', leading to protests led by former EDL leader Tommy Robinson. 

It heightened racial tensions - one curry house had its windows smashed and a Muslim takeaway owner was chase down the street by men who poured alcohol on his head.

It also painted a target on the backs of the men she accused - one man saw his wife leave him over the claims, while another family were forced to leave the town altogether. 

But it has now been found that the claims made by Williams were all false, a fabrication made by Williams that prosecutors said had ruined people's lives.

Evidence that she had posted on social media, including messages from the men who were alleged to have abused her, was found to be misleading or outright false by police.

Instead of being a grooming gang victim, a jury ruled Williams was a liar who had caused her own injuries as part of a fantasy, something she could now be sent to prison for.

She was convicted of a total of eight counts of perverting the course of justice after an 11-week trial at Preston Crown Court.

These included claims that she had been drugged and raped by multiple people since she was 12 years old, and that she had been trafficked to places such as Ibiza and Amsterdam and abused by men there.

Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC compared the allegation with a scene from Liam Neeson film Taken, where the main character tracks down a human trafficking gang that had abducted his daughter.

Williams had claimed business owner Mohammed Ramzan, had groomed her from the age of 12, and had put her to work at brothels in Amsterdam and sold her at an auction there.

But the court heard at the time she was in the Dutch capital, his bank card was being used at a B&Q in Barrow.

When confronted with evidence that she had been with her sister and her sister's boyfriend the whole time she was in Amsterdam and the abuse could not have happened, Williams maintained her version of events was correct.

On another occasion she accused a man of threatening to kill her unless she had sex with eight men in Blackpool, The Mail reports.

But this was another fabrication, with CCTV showing she booked herself into a hotel and then stayed inside apart from a brief walk to the shops.

She accused another man, Jordan Trengove, of raping her - an allegation that led to him spending 10 weeks on remand in prison. 

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