'The light had gone from her': Girl, 12, wants cousin who raped her identified

A 12-year-old girl has expressed a wish to have her cousin, who raped and sexually abused her, identified in the reporting of the case because she wants people to know that “he is in the wrong”.

Alice Fawsitt SC, prosecuting, told Mr Justice Michael White that she had told the child she would convey her wishes to the court, but her instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions were that it would not be in the girl's best interest to have the 22-year-old man named.