A woman who falsely claimed to have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang in the northwest of England has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
Eleanor Williams, 22, posted pictures of her so-called injuries and gave an account of having being groomed, trafficked, and beaten by a gang in Barrow-in-Furness, a town in the north of England.
The post, in May 2020, was shared more than 100,000 times and a Facebook group, Justice for Ellie, was even set up in its wake.
But Williams’s account proved to be a complete fabrication. Those she accused were wholly innocent and in some cases faced death threats and other abuse. In the wake of her post there were demonstrations in the town….