Eleanor Williams lied about being a victim of an Asian grooming gang in her home town.
Eleanor Williams was jailed for eight-and-a-half years on Tuesday for perverting the course of justiceWhen Eleanor Williams' Facebook post claiming she was the victim of an Asian rape gang went viral in 2020, it sparked a bitter backlash against Asian-owned businesses in her home town of Barrow, Cumbria.
In it she claimed to have been taken to an address in Barrow and raped by numerous Asian men. Included were graphic images of injuries to her face and body she claimed the gang had inflicted on her - in fact, she had done them to herself.Shortly after Sajid began getting phone calls. Many of them were silent, some were entirely sinister.
"I had calls saying that they were going to rape my wife in front my children, then kill me, and kill my kids," he said, adding: "I got quite a few calls, saying that we're going to shoot everyone within the shop.The windows of his business were smashed three times, people spat at his shop and regularly shouted abuse at the staff or at Sajid in the street.
Barrow's MP Simon Fell describes the town as "isolated" and, as a consequence, "it's a really strong and tight-knit community".
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