Police didn't have 'single piece of evidence' to support woman's claims she'd been groomed by Asian gang

Police investigating claims that a young woman had been trafficked by an Asian gang didn't have a 'single piece of evidence' that she was being groomed, a court heard.

Eleanor Williams falsely accused a number of men of rape, dating back to 2017, and told police she was groomed, trafficked and beaten by an Asian gang.

She is appearing at Preston Crown Court today (13 March) where she is due to be sentenced, after a jury found her guilty of eight counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice.

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The 22-year-old, from Walney, Barrow, fabricated evidence, injuring herself with a hammer, and made a dramatic social media post claiming she had been beaten up when she refused to attend sex parties in lockdown.

Williams was 16 when she made the first false claim she had been raped at a party in Barrow. She later claimed she had been raped after a night out at Manhattans nightclub, where she worked, and again at her flat by the same man.

She went on to say she had been groomed from the age of 12 and forced to attend sex parties across the north of England and had been taken to Ibiza where the abuse continued. She said she had been sold as a slave at an auction in Amsterdam, while on holiday with her sister.

During the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC, told the court that there was 'not a single piece of evidence to support Williams having been groomed' by any of the people accused, Lancs Live reports.

One of those included a local man named Mohammed Ramzan, who was investigated by the police and received death threats in the wake of her fictitious claims.

Mr Ramzan, also known as Mo Rammy, is