Unreliable Witness 7: The Other Trial

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, News

4.3 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

EPISODE 7: A new court case finally exposes abuse in Barrow. Jason and Liz have known about these allegations for years but they can only reveal the facts now. The case involves three brothers and it's taken their victims more than a decade to get justice. Now we can tell the story of their crimes and follow a thread leading back to Ellie Williams. She's out of jail and not allowed to talk to the media. But Jason and Liz find her old diaries raise fresh questions.

Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual abuse, explicit language, and a reference to suicide

From Sky News Storycast, Unreliable Witness is presented by Jason Farrell and Liz Lane.

Episode Producer: Soila Apparicio
Executive Producer: Louise Cotton
Sound Design: Matt Wareham
Sky Podcasts Editor: Paul Stanworth

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0:00.0	The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.
0:03.5	How can we make sense of it all?
0:04.9	I'm Richard Engelt.
0:05.7	And I'm Yalda Hakim.
0:06.7	And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.
0:10.9	And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.
0:14.6	Each week, we'll cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events
0:18.6	and explain to you why what happens out there
0:22.4	matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim
0:28.0	wherever you get your podcasts. Before we begin a warning, this episode of unreliable witness
0:34.2	contains descriptions of violence and sexual abuse and explicit language.
0:39.8	This is episode 7. To find episode 1, search Unreliable Witness on your podcast app.
0:50.1	It's another cold, dark, rainy day outside Preston Crown Court, where I've spent many days
0:57.7	making this podcast. Back in 2023, Eleanor Williams was convicted here of faking evidence that she
1:06.0	had been raped by several men. Her hometown of Barrow became notorious for the fake grooming gang,
1:13.6	a town where people turned violent against Asian men over false allegations.
1:19.6	But we are back and I'm here with specialist producer Liz Lane
1:24.6	because there is another twist in this story.
1:28.3	This time there are men in the dock, three brothers.
1:32.3	They're accused of multiple sexual offences against underage girls.
1:37.3	Yes, and this case takes us all the way back to Eleanor Williams and to Barrow.
1:48.5	I'm Sky News, home editor Jason Farrell.
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