A woman who falsely accused men of raping and sex trafficking her - to the extent that one man spent time in prison - has been jailed for eight years for her lies. Eleanor Williams spun a web of lies that she was raped by multiple men and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang and has now been jailed for eight-and-a-half years.
A jury took just over three hours to convict the 22-year-old for nine counts of perverting the course of justice, after a court heard that graphic images of her alleged injuries at the hands of men, many who did not know Williams, had been self inflicted. One of these injuries included the defendant beating her own face with a hammer.
The images, which were shared tens of thousands of times on social media, sparked protests in her Cumbrian home town of Barrow, and resulted in those accused of inflicting them being vilified. So much so, one man had the word 'rapist' spray painted on his home.
