The Latest Breaking News from Eleanor Williams

As Eleanor Williams was jailed for eight and a half years today, the Mirror looks at the disturbing lies she told and the impact they had on the victims and the wider community

Psychiatrist speculated she had PTSD from childhood trauma but trial offered few clues

Eleanor Williams gave several accounts of being raped and trafficked. Her claims were proven false, but not before the men implicated were made to suffer, Liam James reports

A 22-year-old woman has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after falsely claiming to have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang. Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday after making a series of false rape allegations. In a Facebook post in May 2020,…

Eleanor Williams purchased a hammer to inflict her own injuries, claiming they were the work of a grooming gang in a viral Facebook post

Eleanor Williams injured herself with a hammer before posting on Facebook about an ordeal that never happened but sparked 'public displays of mass anger'.

Eleanor Williams, who self-inflicted injuries with a hammer, has been jailed for eight and a half years after making a series of false rape allegations

Her false accusations caused 'public displays of mass anger' in the town

Eleanor Williams accused a number of men of rape and posted an account on Facebook alleging she had been the victim of an Asian grooming gang

In a Facebook post in May 2020, which was shared more than 100,000 times, she described being beaten, abused and trafficked by Asian men

Eleanor Williams has today been jailed for more than eight years after concocting an elaborate web of lies about being raped by a gang of sex traffickers in her hometown