Brave rape victim reveals torment that followed brutal attacks

A man has been jailed for 13 years for the rape of a woman four times having invited her to his house to help him with some painting.

In a victim impact statement she said in the days after the rape she kept thinking “why did I not die that night? He should have killed me that night”. She cut herself with a small blade because it was “my way of taking some control back”.

“The best way to describe how I felt about myself at the time was that I was damaged,” the woman said.