The mother of a young woman jailed yesterday for lying about being raped by a grooming gang said she was 'just trying to get people to listen to her’.
Eleanor Williams, 22, shared photographs of her injuries and an account of being groomed, trafficked and beaten in a viral Facebook post that sparked racist violence against the men she accused.
She had made accusations of sexual assault and trafficking against multiple men over a period of three years, and had been found by police in a field nor far from her home with multiple injuries and her eye swollen shut.
