A businessman falsely {accused} of operating an Asian grooming gang revealed he contemplated taking his personal life after a 22-year-old girl made up a string of horrific rape and trafficking lies.
Serial liar Eleanor Williams posted graphic photos on Fb in Could 2020 in the course of the coronavirus lockdown of accidents she prompted to herself alleging she was trafficked for intercourse abuse in Blackpool and Amsterdam.
A jury at Preston Crown Court docket discovered her responsible of eight counts of perverting the course of justice.
She claimed restaurateur Mohammed Ramzan, generally known as Mo Rammy, had trafficked her for the reason that age of 12 and threatened to kill her – allegations which he all the time denied. He additionally denied having any contact with Williams, stated he obtained a whole bunch of loss of life threats and abuse from individuals as distant because the US, and self-harmed and thought of taking his personal life.
Eleanor Williams claimed she was abused by an Asian grooming gang in Barrow, Cumbria
She claimed restaurateur Mohammed Ramzan, generally known as Mo Rammy, had trafficked her for the reason that age of 12 and threatened to kill her. Father-of-four Mr Ramzan denied ever having any contact with Williams and stated he was abused by individuals as distant because the US, and instructed a jury he obtained 500 loss of life threats
Mr Ramzan now has a CCTV digital camera 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 residence and autos.
Mr Ramzan stated: ‘It completely ruined me to the purpose the place I smashed a bottle on my head. I wished to kill myself due to the injury it did. The status I might 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 expenses had been introduced.
When the allegations turned public in Could 2020, Mr Ramzan stated he obtained a whole bunch of threatening or abusive messages through Fb.
He stated: ‘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 straight referring to 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 purchasing at B&Q on the dates in query. Williams claimed he was concerned in trafficking her to ‘events’ in Blackpool the place she was pressured to have intercourse with a number of males.
Preston Crown Court docket heard Williams later modified her story about Blackpool, telling police she had been instructed to lie by members of a grooming gang as a ‘check’.
Mr Ramzan stated he was ‘completely ecstatic’ she was convicted.
After an 11-week trial at Preston Crown Court docket, Williams was convicted of eight counts of perverting the course of justice
He stated: ‘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 on.’
The city’s MP Simon Fell stated the allegations introduced far-Proper ‘vultures’ to the realm and prompted hatred and suspicion throughout lockdown.
He stated: ‘I used to be comparatively new to the job when the primary electronic mail pinged in about Ellie Williams and the now notorious publish that she’d placed on Fb. We had been locked down. The streets had been quiet, individuals had been at residence, 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 the same banner hung throughout the A590 for a time.
‘The neighborhood had been outraged and did not know the place to show. The pictures that Ellie shared had been horrific.
‘The story she instructed – of being groomed, overwhelmed, and abused – had been each mother or father’s nightmare and the vultures started to circle – those that make their cash and reputations out of others’ distress.
‘The far proper had 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 ideal injustice being completed to considered one of 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 had 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 kids’s security as a result of 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 had been actually every others’ lifelines was simply heartbreaking to witness.
‘Folks’s lives have been ruined because of her tales, and Barrow has been put via the wringer. One man frolicked in jail attributable to her (false) allegations. Others noticed their home windows put in. Or obtained loss of life threats. Others nonetheless left city and haven’t returned.
‘And belief within the Police has been shaken.
‘The opposite particular person in want of help is Ellie herself. It might be her tales that offered the gasoline for this fireplace, and which have unleashed real damage on individuals and the broader neighborhood.
‘On the finish of the day, no particular person commits the form of bodily abuse towards their very own physique that we noticed in that first Fb publish, or fabricates the lies that she did, except which might be deeply unwell. I hope she will get the assistance she wants.’
For confidential help name the Samaritans on 116123 or go to an area Samaritans department, see www.samaritans.org for particulars
