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Nicusor Manole, 27, became 'angry' after coaxing the girl to his flat, police said

Eleanor Williams was jailed for more than eight years at Preston Crown Court for lying about being being a victim of a grooming gang in Barrow, Cumbria

A 22-year-old woman has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after falsely claiming to have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang. Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday after making a series of false rape allegations. In a Facebook post in May 2020,…

Eleanor Williams, who self-inflicted injuries with a hammer, has been jailed for eight and a half years after making a series of false rape allegations

Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday after making a series of false rape allegations.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE Eleanor Williams, 22, published pictures of her injuries and an account of being groomed, trafficked and beaten, on Facebook - which was shared more than 100,000 times

Eleanor Williams falsely accused a number of men of rape and told police she was trafficked and beaten by an Asian gang

Michael Cooper, 50 fitted bars to the windows and forced his partner to sleep in the loft as his prisoner before she eventually escaped in June 2020 after five years.

Michael Cooper, 50, from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, kept his partner prisoner for five years where she was locked up at night and chained to him, a court has been told