A post on Eleanor Williams' Facebook page sent shockwaves across the world. Pictures of her face battered and bruised alongside an harrowing account of an alleged six year ordeal with a sex trafficking gang turned the small town where she lived upside down
Williams made accusations that she had been abused and groomed for years by a group of Asian businessmen. She said they raped and beat her if she didn't go along with their wishes, and that she was just one of many victims of these crimes.
But what Williams had not revealed was that she was at that time under investigation for perverting the course of justice. She had only just been released on bail after an investigation found no substance to her claims of a grooming gang in Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria.
