A girl has appeared at Preston Crown Court accused of fabricating proof to border males for rape, together with inflicting extreme hammer blows on herself.
Prosecutors declare 21-year-old Eleanor Williams, from Barrow-in-Furness, is a “serial liar” who used false textual content messages and Snapchat conversations to bolster claims she had been trafficked and raped by a number of males.
Crown Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC instructed the jury though Ms Williams was on one event found with a number of wounds on her physique after going lacking, the prosecution claims “the injuries had been self-inflicted with a hammer.”
Ms Williams faces seven counts of perverting the course of justice. It is claimed she made false allegations of rape and violence towards her between 2017 and 2020 to work colleagues, medical professionals, well being staff and the police.
She is accused of faking proof resembling textual content messages on cell phones and social media through which her alleged abusers and traffickers appeared to debate or admit their supposed crimes, in addition to messages through which she and different supposed victims appeared to debate being trafficked or sexually exploited.
The crown prosecutor instructed the court docket Ms Williams altered the names of males on her cell phone to make it seem she was being contacted by males with Asian names about intercourse.
It was advised she arrange Snapchat accounts herself within the names of a person she claimed had attacked her so she may ship confessional or damning messages to herself.
The jury was instructed because of the allegations folks have been arrested and interviewed, and one man was charged and saved in custody for 3 months.
Mr Sandiford stated police initially investigated a number of males earlier than realising Ms Williams’s tales have been suspicious.
In 2019, Ms Williams was arrested for perverting the course of justice and launched pending additional investigations, the jury was instructed.
Mr Sandiford stated: “Unfortunately, the fact that her lie and false allegations had been exposed by police in July 2019 did not cause her to stop.
“Instead, she continued to manufacture proof to try to make it seem that her false claims of being a sufferer of trafficking and sexual exploitation have been true.”
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On 19 May 2020, Ms Williams failed to return home as expected and was reported to the police as missing.
Mr Sandiford says when police eventually found her “she had vital accidents to her face, her physique and her limbs and he or she had a badly minimize finger.
“She told police that she had been taken to a house in Barrow, gang raped, beaten and attacked with a knife causing the cut to her finger.”
The subsequent day the defendant made comparable claims in a public social media put up she made on Facebook.
Mr Sandiford added: “The police made enquiries, as they were bound to do, into what Miss Williams had alleged and they established none of it was true.
“The police established that her accidents had been self-inflicted with a hammer police recovered in fields close to to the place they’d discovered Ms Williams on the night time, she had did not return house.”
The prosecution says it doesn’t settle for Ms Williams was a sufferer of sexual offences or trafficking in the way in which she suggests. But, even when she had been, that will not give her a defence to pervert the course of justice.
Ms Williams denies the allegations. Her defence workforce is anticipated to stipulate their argument after extra opening statements from the prosecution on Wednesday.
Source: information.sky.com”