Woman Whose Lies on Facebook About Asian Grooming Gang Provoked ‘Unprecedented Outcry’ Is Jailed

Judge says she has shown no remorse for her 'complete fiction'

An undated image of Eleanor Williams, who was jailed for eight-and-a-half years at Preston Crown Court in England on March 14, 2023. Cumbria Police/PA

A woman who falsely claimed to have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang in the northwest of England has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

Eleanor Williams, 22, posted pictures of her so-called injuries and gave an account of having being groomed, trafficked, and beaten by a gang in Barrow-in-Furness, a town in the north of England.