Knight is "letting go of the hate" and putting nightmare abduction behind her

Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle Knight endured a decade of hell at the hands of sadistic abductor Ariel Castro. But now, she tells Hannah Stephenson she’s "letting go of the hate" and sees a happy future.

IT’S ONLY a year since Michelle Knight’s living nightmare ended, but the memory of the previous terrifying, harrowing decade will never leave her.

Aged 21, the young mother had stopped at a local discount store in Tremont, in Cleveland, Ohio, to ask for directions to attend a custody meeting involving her son Joey, and was offered a lift by the father of a friend.