Gang-rape victim, 15, says her life has been destroyed

A SCHOOLGIRL who was brutally raped and beaten by a gang of nine boys spoke yesterday of how the ordeal has destroyed her life.

The 15-year-old said the ordeal in a tower block in Hackney, east London, has left her without her former friends, unable to leave her house for fear of crowds and “being punished for something I haven’t done”.

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I can’t go out, I can’t really do nothing. Everything I used to do, like going shopping and ice-skating, I can’t do that now because of all the crowds. I’ve got a fear of crowds and gangs of people. Everything has changed. I had to leave all my friends behind and school.”