How a woman's gang rape lies sparked outrage
Eleanor Williams said she was the victim of a grooming gang and had been raped multiple times, sparking outrage and protests in her home town. But as she is convicted of multiple counts of perverting the course of justice for inventing the whole story, the BBC looks at the impact her lies had.The then 19-year-old claimed she had been passed around for sex "for years" across the North of England by an Asian gang who drugged her, beat her, blackmailed her and threatened her with weapons.
Months before she posted her lies, she had been relating an even more elaborate story to the police, claiming a string of innocent men were rapists, sex traffickers and armed murderers. Now, nearly three years after her claims were made public, a jury has convicted Williams, 22, of eight counts of perverting the course of justice.This was an unusual case. In Cumbria in 2020-21, there were 46 reported offences of perverting the course of justice. In comparison, there were 1,177 reports of rape, sexual assault and trafficking.
He described how in the months after her viral Facebook posts, their town was "a step away from anarchy". Jordan Trengove was another of Williams' victims, but unlike the others he was charged on the basis of her allegations and spent 10 weeks on remand in prison, before being cleared."Once something's said in Barrow, because it's such a small town, that's it, it's stuck with you for the rest of your life," he said.In April 2020, after a month of fever-pitch protests, Cumbria Police announced that Williams had been charged with perverting the course of justice.
She said they had given her drugs to the point she was "nearly addicted to heroin" and had "stripped me naked, beaten me and dumped me in the middle of nowhere".The police announcements appeared to strengthen the resolve of Williams' supporters in Barrow and further afield. She had used two phones to text herself messages from her "abusers", and she had changed the names of her Snapchat contacts to make it appear she was conversing with people traffickers.
Possibly the most shocking for those in her home town was the revelation that she was responsible for the painful injuries they had seen on her Facebook posts.
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