Rape victim wakes screaming in the night

THE mother of a 10-year-old girl kidnapped by Antoni Imiela told in a statement read to the court how her daughter had woken up in the middle of the night screaming because she could “see his face”.

Maidstone Crown Court heard the comments in one of a series of impact statements given by victims and their families to the police.

Mark Dennis, prosecuting, reading from the mother’s statement told how she had “indicated how (the girl) would never sleep on her own anymore and would wake up in the middle of the night screaming.

“When asked what was the matter, she would reply ’I can see his face, I can see his face’,” Mr Dennis said.

Another of Imiela’s victims, a 52-year-old woman raped on Wimbledon Common, told in her statement how “the man who raped me killed the person I was”.

Mr Dennis, reading from her statement, said: “She indicates how the effect of the rape has been to lose all confidence in herself and her independence and to be prone to terrible panics.”

The mother of the 10-year-old girl raped in Ashford, Kent, by Imiela said in her statement how her daughter was not the same and would often suddenly burst out in tears.

Mr Dennis said: “Since the attack I don’t think (her daughter) slept through the whole night. Her confidence has gone. Although I know she has nightmares, she doesn’t want to talk about them or the attack. She’s unsettled at school and is prone to various unexplained outbursts.”

Mr Dennis added: “She has indicated how (the girl) had been a very outgoing and friendly child, but how she had been changed by the ordeal.”

Reading the statement, he said the mother had written: “I don’t think that a day goes by when I don’t think about what has happened to (her daughter).”The mother of Imiela’s 13-year-old victim described how her daughter was “not the same person she was. She is not the lovely, cuddly little girl and she is unable to go anywhere on her own”.

The 26-year-old woman raped on Putney Heath by Imiela who then stole her mobile phone and taunted the woman’s mother over the attack had been forced to move back home with her family since the ordeal.

Mr Dennis said: “She says that the rape has changed her life completely.”