It Could Have Been You

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Editorial media includes use as a visual reference to support your article, story, critique or educational text. Everyone thought it was over, everyone thought the sentencing had given a conclusion to the whole traumatic event. Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie acts as a broker and offers finance from a restricted range of finance providers, PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. But as far as I was concerned there was suddenly this blank space, where people were saying `you can get on with your life'. She survived partly through the care of her father and three elder sisters, but also because "I felt I had to show them I was OK and that would ease their pain".

Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Her story is horrific, but it's one of enormous courage and survival, and instilled in me an even greater respect for women than I had before. She survived thanks to a squatter who raised the alarm and a fireman who held her neck together until an ambulance arrived. Forty-five minutes later, naked, bleeding from throat slashes and near death, Merlyn was on the front steps of the house, trying to summon help.Merlyn says that although she knows the system needs changing, she was disappointed at the findings of the report. She survived the horrific rape and attempted murder but her fight for recovery and to gain compensation brought her against some surprising areas of resistance—including the refusal of the NHS to pay for plastic surgery on her neck scars. She says: "A similar system is used in Canada and Holland and it has helped to raise the conviction rate. However, a report this week shows that many women and men who are raped very rarely see their attacker punished in the courts. The inspectors suggest that a major way forward would be for all allegations of rape to be reviewed by prosecutors who have received specialist training in the handling of sexual offences.

Jacket Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps. Sharon couldn't live in London, she didn't want to bring her children up in London after what had happened to me," Merlyn says. She experienced few symptoms of trauma but decided to visit a psychiatrist anyway so that she would be prepared to deal with any problems that surfaced subsequently.Everybody wanted to know what was happening with the case, the trial, her new job: "And this wasn't a soap opera, this was my life. Ferrira was later caught, with help from a Crimewatch appeal, and sentenced to 20 years behind bars. But anyone who has forgotten the headlines in February 1992 - along the lines of "Sex fiend slashes girl's throat" - can check the hideous details in the book.