A businessman falsely {accused} of operating an Asian grooming gang revealed he contemplated committing suicide after a 22-year-old girl made up a string of horrific rape and trafficking lies.
Eleanor Williams posted graphic pictures on Fb in Could 2020 in the course of the coronavirus lockdown of accidents she precipitated to herself alleging she was trafficked for intercourse abuse in Blackpool and Amsterdam.
A jury at Preston Crown Courtroom discovered her responsible of eight counts of doing acts tending and supposed to pervert the course of justice.
She claimed restauranteur Mohammed Ramzan, often called Mo Rammy, had trafficked her because the age of 12 and threatened to kill her – allegations which he all the time denied. He additionally denied having any contact with Williams, mentioned he acquired tons of of demise threats and abuse from folks as far-off because the US, and self-harmed and regarded taking his personal life.
Eleanor Williams claimed she was abused by an Asian grooming gang in Barrow, Cumbria
She claimed restauranteur Mohammed Ramzan, often called Mo Rammy, had trafficked her because the age of 12 and threatened to kill her. Father-of-four Mr Ramzan denied ever having any contact with Williams and mentioned he was abused by folks as far-off because the US, and informed a jury he acquired 500 demise threats
Mr Ramzan now has a CCTV digicam beside his TV in Walney, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria and a court docket heard English Defence League chief Tommy Robinson turned up on his doorstep. The lies led to threats, intimidation and slurs, in addition to injury to his house and autos.
Mr Ramzan mentioned: ‘It completely ruined me to the purpose the place I smashed a bottle on my head. I needed to kill myself due to the injury it did. The status I would made was ruined. My neighbours turned on me. Folks dropped me. I lived in hell.’
In July 2019, Mr Ramzan was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and investigated for 3 weeks however no prices have been introduced.
After they grew to become public in Could 2020, Mr Ramzan mentioned he acquired tons of of threatening or abusive messages by way of Fb.
He mentioned: ‘It was like the entire world was towards me – actually the entire world.’
Mr Ramzan was amongst 5 named males {accused} of being concerned in rape or human trafficking by Williams.
She was discovered responsible of eight counts of perverting the course of justice, together with two immediately regarding Mr Ramzan.
Williams alleged Mr Ramzan had been concerned in trafficking her to Amsterdam to be offered for intercourse in 2018 however cops discovered he had been procuring at B&Q on the dates in query. Williams claimed he was concerned in trafficking her to ‘events’ in Blackpool the place she was compelled to have intercourse with a number of males.
Preston Crown Courtroom heard Williams later modified her story about Blackpool, telling police she had been informed to lie by members of a grooming gang as a ‘take a look at’.
Mr Ramzan mentioned he was ‘completely ecstatic’ she was convicted.
After an 11-week trial at Preston Crown Courtroom, Williams was convicted of eight counts of perverting the course of justice
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He mentioned: ‘The reality has come out. I’ve forgiven her for what she put my household via – in any other case I would not be capable to keep it up.’
The city’s MP Simon Fell mentioned the allegations introduced far-Proper ‘vultures’ to the world and precipitated hatred and suspicion throughout lockdown.
He mentioned: ‘I used to be comparatively new to the job when the primary electronic mail pinged in about Ellie Williams and the now notorious put up that she’d placed on Fb. We have been locked down. The streets have been quiet, folks have been at house, maintaining in contact with the world via social media.
‘The stroll to my workplace in Cavendish Avenue was marked with posters of elephants with the hashtag £JusticeForEllie, and an identical banner hung throughout the A590 for a time.
‘The neighborhood have been outraged and did not know the place to show. The photographs that Ellie shared have been horrific.
‘The story she informed – of being groomed, crushed, and abused – have been each dad or mum’s nightmare and the vultures started to circle – those that make their cash and reputations out of others’ distress.
‘The far proper have been the obvious and insidious, with the indignity of Tommy Robinson whipping up tensions nonetheless additional in pursuit of ‘justice’ being maybe the icing on the cake.
‘For many individuals studying about an amazing injustice being finished to one in all their very own, this offered an ideal alternative to vent steam. However for a tragic minority it spilled out to violence and intimidation. Quickly my surgical procedures have been peppered with households who had been torn aside by the allegations made towards them, and native individuals who feared for his or her and their youngsters’s security because of the color of their pores and skin.
‘For a neighborhood like ours, the place our very geography makes us shut, this was insufferable. And for a great deal of these tensions to play out in the course of the lockdown when neighbours have been actually every others’ lifelines was simply heartbreaking to witness.
‘Folks’s lives have been ruined on account of her tales, and Barrow has been put via the wringer. One man frolicked in jail as a result of her (false) allegations. Others noticed their home windows put in. Or acquired demise threats. Others nonetheless left city and haven’t returned.
‘And belief within the Police has been shaken.
‘The opposite individual in want of assist is Ellie herself. It might be her tales that offered the gas for this hearth, and which have unleashed real harm on folks and the broader neighborhood.
‘On the finish of the day, no individual commits the sort of bodily abuse towards their very own physique that we noticed in that first Fb put up, or fabricates the lies that she did, until which can be deeply unwell. I hope she will get the assistance she wants.’
For confidential assist name the Samaritans on 116123 or go to a neighborhood Samaritans department, see www.samaritans.org for particulars
