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.