A teenage girl who was attacked by a foreign sex criminal has waived her right to anonymity and told GB News of the full horror of her experience.
Abbie, 19, and her mother Stacey spoke out in in-depth interviews with Patrick Christys, telling him how their lives have been completely upturned.
Stacey also called on the Prime Minister to crack down on migrants committing crimes and carry out more checks on people entering the country.
On being attacked after a night out by an Iranian asylum-seeker, Abbie said: ‘He’ll get out, he’ll get benefits, he’ll get housed, he’ll get everything handed to him. And I get absolutely nothing. I just get a lifelong worth of trauma that I have to deal with for the rest of my life, and he doesn’t have to go through any of that, which I think is so unfair.
‘I can get my face and my voice out there and tell people what has happened to me and what he has done, then I will do that and hopefully save someone else from going through what I went through.’
‘I felt like he disrespected the country, disrespected me, came in with no respect whatsoever.’
Her mother Stacey said: “Parents need to be aware that our kids are not safe. I never thought it would happen to my child. It’s the focus. It feels like it’s very much on him and what’s best for him, rather than Abbie’s or anyone else. if people do come to this country and they commit a crime, to me, that should be instant deportation. We’re not safe in our country now, and I feel like the people that are coming to our country have got more rights and more protection than what we have.’
Asked to cast her mind back to the days before she was attacked, Abbie said: “It was as every teenage girl does. I didn’t have a worry in the world whatsoever. I could leave my house without being scared of who’s around the corner, what the night could [hold].
“I had no worries whatsoever, because I hadn’t experienced anything as terrible before. I never worried, which it sounds silly, because you should always worry, but I didn’t. I had no worry in the world. I would just go out with my friends, not thinking about safety or anything like that. I’d just go out and have a nice time, and not think about who was there or what was lurking.”
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Recalling the day of the attack on her, she said: “So at start, I initially had work in the morning through to the afternoon, and then I went and met my friend, and we came back here, and we got ready as you do, because we were excited to go out.
“And this was one of the times that we got the bus from my house to the train station, then caught the train to wherever we were going. We arrived there, as you normally do, went to the first pub and then went to the second and stayed there for a while, the whole night was fine.
“Nothing strange happened. It was just like every other weekend until the end of it, and that’s when everything went bad.
“So we were leaving the venue, and some might say, I had a little bit too much to drink, and we were all just really happy, as I am when I’ve had a little bit to drink, and we were running around, and I thought it would be a fantastic idea to play hide and seek.
“So I’m running around. It’s like a little circle, so you could just run…all my friends are trying to find me, but I liked the chase of it. I thought it was funny. And then I found a bush to hide in which I thought was a great hiding spot.
“I hid in there for a little bit. And then I thought I heard my friend coming in, and it was not my friend whatsoever.”
She added: “I’m hiding for a little bit, and I hear the leaves rustling, and I turn around, thinking it’s my friend, but I couldn’t I couldn’t see anything, and all I heard was a Middle Eastern accent asked me if I’m okay, and that’s when I knew that it was, in fact, not my friend, and I knew that something was wrong.