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True Crime with Rachel Shannon

Her EVIL Lies Ruined COUNTLESS Lives: The Horrific Crimes of Eleanor Williams

Fri, 11 Apr 2025

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Most women are staunch supporters of the phrase "believe all women", and for a good reason: So many women are assaulted and their abusers never face the consequences they deserve. However, when people like Eleanor Williams take advantage of this movement, her actions deeply impact the lives of all victims. Did she really lie about being brutally attacked, or should we believe what Eleanor has to say too? In January 2025, Williams was released from prison after serving approximately two years of her sentence. Her early release has sparked controversy and public debate, particularly among those affected by her false claims. She is now under strict probation conditions and could be returned to prison if she breaches them.

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Chapter 1: What happened to Eleanor Williams?

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We all know when it comes to horrific things like sexual assault and rape, we need to believe all women.

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For far too long, women have been ridiculed and called liars when they come out with genuine accusations against the men who have hurt them. But in some rare cases, we hear stories like this one where one woman decides to come up with lie after lie

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falsely accusing so many different people of so many horrific violent things and when things like this happens it harms not just the people involved but every single woman who has suffered abuse in her life this is the disgusting story of Eleanor Williams

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Eleanor Williams, who went by Ellie, was born to parents Allison Johnston and Peter Williams, and she grew up in Walney Island in Barwon Furnace, England, with her mother and her stepfather. Eleanor has an older sister named Lucy and a brother who has not been named publicly as far as I've seen. Eleanor's mother, Allison, was known locally as a pillar in the community.

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She worked as a labor counselor for the community and was well respected by those around her. She was known to be very community oriented who put her all into representing the people of the town. By all accounts, Ellie grew up in a normal middle class home in a nice neighborhood with a family who loved her.

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But according to what Ellie would later tell police, throughout her life, she went through some of the most horrific things a person can go through. Ellie's story starts back in November of 2017 when Ellie was only 16 years old. Now, one night that November, Ellie reported that she was attending a little get-together with some friends at the home of Cameron Bibby.

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She said that she had been smoking weed and drinking alcohol that night, but she started to feel sick. At that point, Cameron and his friends contacted Ellie's mother and older sister, who came to pick her up. They took her to the hospital to get checked out, but once at the hospital, Ellie confided in her mother and sister that she had been raped by Cameron that night.

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Of course, this immediately concerned her family and hospital staff, so they called the authorities to report this. She then went into the police station to make her statement. In that statement, she said that Cameron had forcibly kissed her. He then followed her into the bathroom and watched her urinate, making comments about her pubic area.

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She said he then started touching her inappropriately before sitting on her and taking her clothes off without her consent. Ellie continued that she told Cameron to stop, but he threatened to set his dog on her to attack her and that he would bury her in the garden or put her in the sea if she didn't comply. Obviously, hearing what this poor 16-year-old went through was horrific.

Chapter 2: How did the community react to Ellie’s claims?

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Anytime there was a lie that was confirmed as not being physically possible, she just said that she was forced to say it by an abuser. She adamantly denied hitting herself with a hammer, saying, I'm not a psychopath. But in the end, the evidence against Ellie was damning and showed a very clear picture of a young woman who lied and lied and lied over and over and over again.

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It was said that throughout the trial, she showed no remorse. gave no explanation for her behavior. At the end of the trial, the jury was sent off for deliberations and after just a few hours, they came back with their verdict. They found that Eleanor Williams is guilty on all eight counts of perverting justice.

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She did end up pleading guilty to that ninth count from her writing that letter to her sister.

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In this case, the defendant was convicted after trial on counts 1 to 8, each of which alleged perverting the course of justice. She is also to be sentenced on count 9, a further count of perverting the course of justice, to which she entered a guilty plea on 15 February 2022. and for which she'll receive full credit.

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When it was time for the courts to decide her sentencing, Ellie's defense argued that Ellie actually has complex post-traumatic stress disorder. They argued that she had a lot of difficulties in her childhood. She began self-harming when she was younger. but her doctor couldn't really provide much detail into what difficulties she actually faced.

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Like they didn't give really any examples or any specific instances or anything to actually support their claims. The judge did say that given the significance of the story she came up with, there has to be some sort of mental impairment to be able to come up with this and lie like she did. To go to such great lengths to create these false accusations against men she didn't even really know.

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But really, there is no explanation for this. The judge also has to consider all of the hardships that her accusations caused on the victims in this case. Jordan's house was spray painted with the word rapist. His mother was being harassed so badly that she had to move out of her home. Again, he spent 73 days in jail. He was harassed on the streets by strangers. He got death threats.

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He's also a father now, and CPS would randomly get anonymous calls saying that Jordan is not fit to be a father. When he moved, his neighbor called him a rapist and blatantly said that he wasn't welcome there. It got to the point where he fell into a deep depression. Jordan even tried to take his own life because of the significant impact these allegations had on his life.

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Thankfully, he is still alive but he suffers every day and has to take antidepressants.

Chapter 3: What evidence disproved Eleanor Williams' accusations?

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Out of the blue.

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Totally out of the blue. But prior to that, for a year and a half, local, I've had issues, as in, like, social media going on, and it being I'm a paedophile enabler. I orchestrate it, and there was...

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but that was just local and a lot of people knew and they were just always dismissed nobody really cared they were like the extreme the the few people that are involved in this they were the few they were the extreme far right and they were just pushing this agenda after you were cleared of doing any wrongdoing from their investigations the mud had stuck by that point yeah

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Tell us what happened.

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You've got all these that were just pushing the agenda of that, this is it, it's a mass cover-up. That was the whole target then that became. It's a mass cover-up, he's getting away with it, the town's corrupt, the police is corrupt, the council's corrupt...

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he's got he pays off everything and that was just like i got are we living in pakistan what was that like for your kids it was horrendous for my kids absolutely horrendous and that is at that point uh in 2019 we were struggling as it was because my son my eldest son started self-harming he dropped out of college because people were calling uh and he was he was had one of the ice cream vans and he was constantly getting called and you know people talking about your dad you know he

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It's the worst possible allegation as well, isn't it?

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And listen now, two weeks prior to me getting arrested... I walked in. I'm going to the bathroom. It's half one in the morning and his bedroom light's on. And I walked in and you see his son all cut up. It's devastating. It's heartbreaking. And we all tried to keep strong by not sharing what we're going through. And, you know, just to keep that, some sort of normality at home.

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And you're thinking, it'll be fine.

Chapter 4: Why did police initially believe Eleanor's story?

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It was said that she google searched some random people in her area and that is how she chose some of the men to blame. I just don't get, like, if you have this grudge against someone, why not choose them? Obviously, that's also wrong. But why are you choosing to blame random men that you've never met and that have nothing to do with you?

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My big questions are, why did she choose Muhammad for the sex trafficking story? That is such a... Such a massive lie. Why wouldn't she just say that he raped her? Why did she have to bring in all these other people, all these other victims, make up this huge elaborate story of years and years and years of sex trafficking? That makes no sense.

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I also want to know why did she say that Asian men gang raped her? God knows. I, personally, this might be a hot take, but I do think that racism played part in that. In some sick way, maybe she thought that blaming minorities would make her stories more believable, or maybe she simply didn't like these populations, which makes things even worse. The fact that she went racist with it...

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That's just like the cherry on top of everything else that she did. But at the end of the day, there's truly no explanation for why someone would do something as horrific as Ellie did. And honestly, I don't know if we're ever going to find out because I think that Ellie will live the rest of her life claiming that these things really did happen to her.

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I don't think she's ever going to at least publicly admit that she was lying. But at the end of this case, I do want to hear what you all think. Why do you think she did this? Why do you think she chose to blame the people she did? Do you agree with her family and that some of what she told is actually true? Or do you think it's all lies?

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Do you think something happened in her past that caused her to come up with all of these lies?

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