A 21-year-old girl is accused of concocting an elaborate “pack of lies” with a view to persuade police that she was the sufferer of a gang of intercourse traffickers in Barrow-in-Furness.
According to the Crown Prosecution Service, Eleanor Williams staged a visit to Blackpool and lied to police that she had been trafficked and raped in numerous homes by eight completely different males.
A trial at Preston Crown Court heard that that is one in every of many false rape allegations made in opposition to quite a few males by Williams between 2017 and 2020.
Williams denies seven counts of perverting the course of justice.
Police had discovered Williams at Preston Railway Station after she went lacking in early July 2019.
Jonathan Sandiford KC, prosecuting, stated: “The defendant gave what can only be described as an horrific account of how she had been the victim of violence and sexual exploitation.”
Williams allegedly claimed that the boys had threatened to kill her if she went to the police by throwing her into the ocean. But the prosecutor advised the jury the entire story was made up.
He stated proof would present she used Booking.com to e book herself a room for 2 nights on the Savoy Hotel on the Promenade in Blackpool, and CCTV didn’t present her assembly males, however going to the outlets to purchase meals earlier than returning to her resort.
In his opening remarks within the case, Mr Sandiford stated as a substitute of being bought for intercourse by traffickers, “the defendant was in her hotel room eating Pot Noodle and chocolate and watching YouTube and iPlayer on her mobile telephone while resolutely declining to answer any messages from her family and friends asking where she was.”
The court docket heard that Williams advised police that she had been trafficked from the age of 12 or 13 and brought to events the place the boys bidded to have intercourse with ladies and that she was taken to Ibiza for 2 weeks and compelled to have intercourse with males.
Jonathan Sandiford KC stated: “When the officers pointed out that flight manifests could be checked, the defendant admitted that she had never been trafficked to Ibiza.”
The prosecution stated it will additionally disprove claims that Williams was taken to Amsterdam and made to work in a brothel and that an try was made to promote her at public sale.
Williams can also be accused of organising pretend Snapchat accounts within the names of her alleged traffickers, some who have been actual folks and others fictitious, and that she used a second cell phone, given to her by a ladies’s assist group for victims of abuse, to create conversations with an imaginary fellow sufferer.
The jury was advised that telephone mast information would present that whereas texts have been exchanged, the 2 cell phones have been in the identical place, even when the defendant travelled to Scotland to see her father.
In court docket on Tuesday, it was alleged that Williams had harmed herself with a hammer to make it look as if she’d been attacked by her abusers. On Wednesday, there have been extra particulars.
In May 2020 the defendant was found with extreme accidents, described in court docket with no consideration eye that was purple and swollen shut, a finger with two cuts, one in every of which minimize to the pulp, nearly taking a bit off it, and a shallow minimize to her proper ankle that was two inches lengthy.
The police later recovered a hammer from the fields close to to the place she was discovered and it’s clamed this was an identical to the one Williams had bought from Tesco ten days earlier.
The recovered hammer was extensively stained with blood, which, in response to the prosecution, matched Williams’s DNA.
The jury was advised {that a} Home Office pathologist examined pictures and medical notes concerning the accidents and, in response to Mr Sandiford, the professional concluded that: “The injury to the little finger was not caused by a knife or blade but as consistent with a blow by the double pronged claw of a hammer of the type recovered.”
He stated the pathologist discovered that “the injuries were consistent with multiple, self-inflicted hammer blows. The defendant has in a rather extreme act used the hammer to inflict the blows upon herself.”
Louise Blackwell KC, defending, stated Ellie Williams’s case shall be that “all the allegations she has made are true,” besides within the case of the occasions in Blackpool the place she’s going to say she was instructed to go to Blackpool by her traffickers and to lie about what occurred there.
Ms Blackwell added: “In all other respects the allegations she has made are true.”
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”