Woman who lied about being raped won't have jail sentence increased
A woman who was jailed after falsely claiming she was raped and sex trafficked will not have her sentence extended.
Eleanor Williams' case was referred to the Attorney General under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
She falsely claimed four men raped, abused, and trafficked her over a six-year period.
The case cannot now be referred to the Court of Appeal after it was determined her sentence was not unduly lenient.
A spokesperson from the Attorney General’s Office said: "After careful consideration, the Solicitor General has concluded that this case cannot properly be referred to the Court of Appeal.
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Wiliams, of Walney, Barrow-in-Furness, named the men she said attacked her and said she was taken to sex parties in the north of England, as well as being trafficked to Ibiza to work as a prostitute.
Williams injured herself with a hammer (Facebook)
Williams was jailed for eight-and-a-half years (AP)The spokesperson added: "A referral under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme to the Court of Appeal can only be made if a sentence is not just lenient but unduly so, such that the sentencing judge made a gross error or imposed a sentence outside the range of sentences reasonably available in the circumstances of the offence."
"The threshold is a high one, and the test was not met in this case."
The 22-year-old even claimed she had been sold as a slave at an auction in Amsterdam.
After her lies came to light, Williams was jailed for eight-and-a-half years for perverting justice after claiming she had been groomed by an Asian sex gang.
Eleanor Williams shopping in a Spar, at a time she claimed she was being trafficked (PA)Her false tales led to several men being arrested and one man spending two months on remand in prison, while Cumbria police investigated the allegations.
In court during Williams' sentencing, three of the men Williams had accused described attempts to take their own life following her allegations.
She is also accused of pocketing £22,000 from sympathetic locals after she made her claims.
Jordan Trengove was falsely accused of trafficking by Eleanor Williams (PA)In a bid to back up her lies, she fabricated evidence creating fake social media profiles to send messages to herself which she claimed were from her abusers, and she also injured herself with a hammer.
The post she shared after she deliberately injured herself was shared more than 100,000 times.
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The report sparked tension in Barrow with allegations the police were covering up an Asian grooming gang, which Williams claimed was operating in the area.
Mohammed Razan, one of the men falsely accused (Philip Coburn /Daily Mirror)Despite Cumbria police's insistence that there was no evidence to support Williams' claims, she stood by them - attracting support from genuine victims and members of the far right.
Williams also gave police an account of being taken to Blackpool, where she said one man threatened her, and she was taken to different addresses and forced to have sex with men.
When police made inquiries, they found she had travelled to the seaside resort alone and stayed in a hotel, where she bought a Pot Noodle from a nearby shop and then remained in her room watching YouTube on her phone.
In sentencing remarks in March, Honorary Recorder of Preston Judge Robert Altham said: “It is troubling to say the least that she shows no significant signs of remorse.”
He added: “Unless and until the defendant chooses to say why she has told these lies we will not know.”
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