A 22-year old woman has been sentenced to eight and a half years after destroying the lives of three men, their families and their livelihoods, and sparking a wave of racially motivated hate crimes after fabricating claims the men sexually assaulted her – claims later proven to be unquestionably false.
Elanor Williams was found guilty of nine charges of perverting the course of justice.
However, the small town she lived in is still reeling from the very real impact that false sexual assault allegations can have on the lives of innocent people.
In May 2020 – just at the start of the Covid pandemic, Elanor Williams posted photos of horrific injuries to Facebook – cuts, bruises, a blackened eye so badly beaten it was swollen shut and a severed finger.
In the same post, Ms Williams also published a detailed account of being groomed, gang raped, and violently assaulted by a group of ‘Asian men' (meaning men from the Asian subcontinent).
After the post went viral, the small English town of Barrow-in-Furness became a hotbed of racial hatred targeted at people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other subcontinental nations, their families and their businesses.
Vigilantes decided to take matters into their own hands, on the behalf of the so-called ‘victim'.
Indian restaurants and businesses were repeatedly smashed up and vandalised.
There were angry protests. Most of the men falsely accused have left town, one of said he and his family received more than 500 death...
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