TWO victims caught up in Eleanor Williams' web of lies have reacted to her being sentenced.

Mohammed Ramzan and Jordan Trengove were both accused by the defendant of raping her.

Williams claimed Mr Ramzan had befriended her age 12, before raping her and trafficking her across the north of England and abroad.

Mr Trengove, she said, had violently raped her on three occasions.

The allegations led to him being charged and held on remand in prison for around three months.

The men are both now preparing to move on with their lives.

In statements read to the court on Monday, three of the men Williams had accused described attempts to take their own life following her allegations.

Mr Ramzan told the court: "I have had countless death threats made over social media from people all over the world because of what they thought I was involved in."

Speaking outside Preston Crown Court, Mr Ramzan said: "I'm feeling a sense of relief.

"I've not lived as a person but I'm now getting the closure and the justice me and family, my wife, my sons, deserve.

"If the judge thinks the sentence is right then I'm happy.

"There's no winners here today, I feel no sense of triumph, only sadness.

"I'm not sure how the family and I are going to recover from this. Mud sticks and I fear it may take some time."

On what he thought of the defendant, he said: "She had plenty of time to stop and tell the truth.

"Eleanor Williams hasn't shown anything. There's been no remorse."

He also hit out at 'keyboard warriors' who he said would continue to believe Williams' allegations, saying: "They have an axe to grind."

But he said he would not move out of Barrow and hoped to help the community 'heal'.

Mr Trengove said he was not satisfied with the sentence and doubted the truth of a statement Williams gave to her barrister apologising for the uproar caused by her Facebook post in May 2020.

"I don't feel like it's long enough in my eyes," he said.

"She needs to realise what she's done.

"I don't think there was any truth in that letter.

"I turned around a couple of times and she was just so straight faced.

"It would have been nice to show some remorse."

Mr Trengove, 22, who lives in Ulverston, said he planned to move out of the area when Williams is released from prison.

The court heard Mr Trengove had continued to face abuse following Williams' conviction and had been the subject of dozens of calls to social services from people who claimed he was a rapist and should not be around children.

Addressing the abuse he had faced since he was arrested in 2019, he said: "I'd say to those people we told you so from the start.

"She's now been found guilty and sentenced."