A woman who claimed she was the victim of an Asian grooming gang has been convicted of perverting the course of justice.
Eleanor Williams said she had been trafficked by a gang from Barrow-in-Furness.
She was accused of eight counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice. Having pleaded guilty to one offence, she stared straight ahead as the verdict was returned. She was found guilty on the other seven counts at Preston Crown Court, .
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Williams had published pictures of her injuries and an account of being groomed, trafficked and beaten, on Facebook in May 2020, in a post which was shared more than 100,000 times. It sparked demonstrations in her hometown and led to former English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson visiting the town to “investigate” the claims.
Williams’ trial, which began in October last year, heard she had accused a number of men of rape, going back to 2017, and told police she was groomed and trafficked by an Asian gang. On May 19, 2020, she was found by officers near her home on Walney Island with injuries which she claimed were inflicted by the gang after she was taken to a house in the town and raped.
But the prosecution claimed Williams caused the injuries to herself with a hammer, which was found with her blood on close by. Jonathan Sandiford KC, prosecuting, said the incident was a “finale” to a series of false allegations made by Williams.
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