Victim smeared by sick grooming gang lies says allegations nearly drove him to suicide

Victim smeared by sick grooming gang lies says allegations nearly drove him to suicide

Mohammed Ramzan says he was nearly driven to suicide as a result of false claims from Eleanor Williams

GB News
Ben Chapman

By Ben Chapman


Published: 21/03/2023

- 17:31

Dad-of-four Mohammed Ramzan was accused of fronting an Asian grooming gang who tormented the 22-year-old from the age of 12

A business owner says he was almost driven to suicide over a string of false allegations of rape and grooming by shamed Briton Eleanor Williams.

Dad-of-four Mohammed Ramzan was accused of fronting an Asian grooming gang who tormented the 22-year-old from the age of 12.


Williams’s web of lies saw multiple individuals wrongly accused of heinous sex crimes before she was put behind bars with an eight-and-a-half year sentence for perverting the course of justice.

Speaking exclusively to GB News, Ramzan revealed Williams’s sickening claims nearly saw him take his own life.

Mohammed Ramzan speaks on GB News

Mohammed Ramzan says the false allegations he had to contend with severely affected his business

GB News

Speaking to Bev Turner about the length of the term, he said: “What we went through as a family and how much damage that does to a person, is it guilty until proven innocent or innocent until proven guilty, which is it?

“People have taken their lives. I attempted suicide, Jordan [Trengove] did, Cameron Bibby did. How could you do that?

“I think the sentence wasn’t long enough, but that’s the judge’s verdict, if the judge thinks it’s a fair sentence, it is.

“It should have been a bit more to set more of an example, but when she’s released, where is she going to go?

Eleanor Williams shopping in a Spar, at a time she claimed she was being trafficked.Eleanor Williams shopping in a Spar, at a time she claimed she was being trafficked.PA

“Are we going to be safe? I just hope that when she’s released, we are consulted and she’s monitored.”

Williams made a series of false rape accusations and gave accounts of being trafficked in Ibiza and sold at auction in Amsterdam.

The 22-year-old claimed she was a victim of an Asian grooming gang, operating in her hometown of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

In a Facebook post in May 2020, which was shared more than 100,000 times, she described being beaten, abused and trafficked by Asian men.

She also posted pictures of her injuries, but the court heard that she had caused them to herself, with a hammer.

In January, a jury found Williams guilty of eight counts of doing acts tending and intended to pervert the course of justice.

She pleaded guilty to a ninth count at an earlier hearing.

In sentencing remarks which were broadcast on television, Honorary Recorder of Preston Judge Robert Altham said: “It is troubling to say the least that she shows no significant signs of remorse.”

He said there is no explanation for why the defendant made the allegations, which he described as “complete fiction”.

He added: “Unless and until the defendant chooses to say why she has told these lies we will not know.”

Mohammed Ramzan told GB News that the allegations he faced saw him landed with death threats as his livelihood took a damaging hit.

He said: “My business was totally ruined. I thought what should we do here?

“The police got involved and I got all the death threats, people were saying they were going to rape my wife in-front of my children and they were going to burn my house.

“My addresses got published on social media and a photo of me was everywhere.”

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