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A 'serial liar' fabricated false evidence that she was raped, attacked and trafficked for sex across the North of England and abroad, a jury was told.
Eleanor Williams, 21, allegedly created false social media accounts and manipulated other profiles to make it appear she was constantly being contacted by men and other supposed female victims, a court heard.
She claimed to have been taken to Ibiza and Amsterdam, where she was forced to work in a brothel before being sold at an auction, jurors at her trial were told. She then injured herself with a hammer to support her claims she had been violently sexually assaulted at a house in Barrow, Preston Crown Court heard.
Williams, of Barrow-in Furness, Cumbria, denies seven counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice, reports Lancs Live.
Opening the trial on Tuesday, prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford KC, said: "On a number of occasions, Williams presented herself at railway stations or to hospitals or police in a vulnerable and injured state, alleging that she had been sexually assaulted or subjected to violence.
"On such occasions, police officers, medical staff and others appear to have taken her accounts of being the victim of sexual exploitation and violence at face value." But he said after an incident in May 2020, the police eventually established that Williams had in fact been injuring herself. On May 19, 2020, Williams was reported to the police when she did not return home, the jury was told.
When police found her, a few miles from her home in Walney Island, part of her finger was almost severed off and she was covered in bruises, it was said. She told police she had been beaten, threatened with a knife and forced to have sex with three men
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