THE mum of a woman jailed for making false rape allegations said her daughter was ‘just trying to get people to listen to her’.

Eleanor Williams, 22, of Teasdale Road, Walney, was found guilty of eight counts of perverting the course of justice following a trial which concluded in January having previously admitted one count.

She was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison yesterday.

The charges arose after Williams accused multiple men over a period of three years of raping and trafficking her.

Williams’ mother Allison Johnston spoke to Sky News about the moment her daughter’s verdict came in.

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She told the broadcaster: “[I'm] heartbroken. I can’t describe it. I still can’t take it in really. It just doesn’t feel real. The person the press are portraying is not the person I know.”

Allison said she accepts her daughter did tell lies but added: “I believe she was just trying to get people to listen to her.”

Williams’ sister Lucy also spoke out about the ordeal to Sky News, revealing that she does believe someone was responsible for her sibling’s injuries.

She told Sky News: “One of the men was harassing Ellie at the bar and some of our friends had seen it and they’d warned him off. And there was a takeaway around the corner from the nightclub, and Ellie was coming home that night with me.

“He grabbed her outside of the takeaway and started pulling her arm, saying: ‘Come on, we’re going’.”

“And she was like: ‘No, I’m going with my sister’, and his face, he was so angry with her. She did come home with me, and then the next weekend she came back black and blue, worse than we’ve ever seen.”

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In the interview, Lucy insists she does not believe her sister’s injuries were self-inflicted, commenting she had ‘never seen anything like it’.

Williams’ family accept she lied about things such as claims that she was trafficked abroad, Sky News reports.

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.”