How to unlock an iPhone 5s with a UK FLEXIBILE APPLE CHANNEL DEFAULT ACTIVATION POLICY / RETAIL UNLOCK

Hi there,
I lost my phone recently so went a replaced it with one i bought off gumtree. I put my new sim in it and although it shows the EE sign in the top left the signal bars are always empty. I guessed this may of been because it was locked to a network. Therefore i paid £1.99 to get a network lock checker on it to find out which network it was locked to. The results that came back confused me a little.
PRODUCT SOLD BY: APPLE
INITIAL CARRIER: UK FLEXIBILE APPLE CHANNEL DEFAULT ACTIVATION POLICY / RETAIL UNLOCK
PURCHASE COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM
I have no idea what the 'Initial Carrier' section is about, as I'm sure it is supposed to say Orange, 02, 3 etc..
Any insight into this will be very much appreciated, and anyone who can identify how i unlock this to EE will get extra brownie points!
Many thanks,
Fergus.

Those sites are rubbish they have no access to the real facts waste of £1.99
Call Apple care in  the UK
0800 107 6285
and they may tell you who the iPhone is locked to
and I hope for your sake it is not Activation locked to the original owners Apple id

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