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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:09,279 --> 00:00:12,620 This is the creature who ruined my life for many, many years. 2 00:00:13,620 --> 00:00:14,620 Martin Butler. 3 00:00:15,660 --> 00:00:19,340 Grooms, drugs and rapes children in Rysip, London, UK. 4 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:24,220 I was raped and abused and drugged by him. 5 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,500 He raped more young teenagers who still haven't come forward. 6 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:33,060 He is currently living opposite a dance school near a scout hut. 7 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,720 and in a very family -orientated community. 8 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,800 I am really terrified that he's still out there. 9 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,800 This is a call for victims and witnesses. 10 00:00:45,380 --> 00:00:46,680 Please come forward. 11 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,120 We need to get him locked up. 12 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,100 A diary of a London girl hippie. 13 00:01:13,460 --> 00:01:15,020 A taste of the underground. 14 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,840 I started writing quite a lot when I was a teenager. 15 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:24,120 If I didn't have anyone to talk to, I'd just get my pen out and try and write 16 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,120 down all my feelings. 17 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:26,980 I used to keep journals. 18 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,240 I'd probably write about things I would want to have told my family. 19 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,820 I was only about 12 when I was at Girl Guides and I soon hated it. 20 00:01:38,170 --> 00:01:41,550 It was good doing first aid and challenges and adventures and things, 21 00:01:41,550 --> 00:01:45,470 more about learning how to become a good woman, which is something I quickly 22 00:01:45,470 --> 00:01:46,470 rebelled from. 23 00:01:47,810 --> 00:01:53,230 I moved in with a friend and her dad in the Blue Roots estate. 24 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,200 The fridge is always full of beer and vodka and his table was laden with weed 25 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,420 and solids and his bag in his pocket was always full of whiz and pills. 26 00:02:02,780 --> 00:02:07,740 I took so much and only ate cheese and onion pasties and became ill and 27 00:02:07,740 --> 00:02:13,560 addicted. I started to trust her dad and we'd cuddle up. I was so skinny, 28 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:16,180 spotty, delusioned and confused. 29 00:02:17,220 --> 00:02:20,400 I thought it was normal to wake up tied up with some... 30 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,620 Sweppy hippy dripping on you. 31 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,380 It wasn't, was it? 32 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,940 I don't remember writing any of that. 33 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:36,940 If I hadn't met Martin Butler, my whole life probably would have been a lot 34 00:02:36,940 --> 00:02:37,940 different. 35 00:02:39,060 --> 00:02:44,020 I was always a happy little girl. We used to go take our bikes around the 36 00:02:44,020 --> 00:02:47,040 and go on long cycles with my family. 37 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:52,180 We had a lot of dressing up clothes, so we'd always be acting and performing. 38 00:02:55,640 --> 00:03:01,440 We had a treehouse in the garden that my dad built, and it had double glazing 39 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,280 because it was a double glazer, so it had a second -hand window in it. So we 40 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:07,900 felt like we were really lucky. 41 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:13,000 They did try so hard to make everything perfect for us, but I think it just 42 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,420 doesn't always work like that, you know. 43 00:03:15,070 --> 00:03:20,310 I was about seven or eight. I think I realised that there were problems. 44 00:03:21,330 --> 00:03:23,730 My dad was just drinking too much. 45 00:03:24,050 --> 00:03:28,370 My parents' marriage started to fall apart around that time as well, and my 46 00:03:28,370 --> 00:03:29,370 was quite violent. 47 00:03:30,470 --> 00:03:33,070 The house was horrific. It was horrible. 48 00:03:33,430 --> 00:03:34,910 No -one wanted to be there. 49 00:03:36,890 --> 00:03:41,370 So sometimes I'd sleep in the woods with, like, some mates, or sometimes 50 00:03:41,370 --> 00:03:42,370 my own. 51 00:03:42,410 --> 00:03:47,030 And Lauren only lived down the road from her. She kind of reached out to me and 52 00:03:47,030 --> 00:03:50,690 was like, why don't you come down the park with us? So I started to hang 53 00:03:50,690 --> 00:03:51,690 with Lauren. 54 00:03:55,370 --> 00:03:58,750 So Laura and I was in school from the age of, I think it was about two. 55 00:03:59,150 --> 00:04:02,730 And yeah, we were in school right throughout to our teens. 56 00:04:03,310 --> 00:04:06,370 We'd known each other a long time. Both our families knew each other. 57 00:04:07,550 --> 00:04:08,810 My name is Laura. 58 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:13,320 But yeah, Laura was really struggling and I think she was just a little bit 59 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,940 and it just broke my heart. So I did, I tried to make her kind of join us a 60 00:04:17,940 --> 00:04:18,940 little bit and she did. 61 00:04:19,420 --> 00:04:24,880 We still sit underneath the shelter and sometimes we'd have enough money to buy 62 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,880 like a can of alcohol. 63 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,240 We used to hang around outside the shops and try and collar someone to go in and 64 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,540 get them for us. And sometimes people would do. 65 00:04:32,820 --> 00:04:36,520 And some of the shops, they were quite naughty. They knew we were underage and 66 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:37,800 they would still sell them to us. 67 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,960 We were really young, I mean, even like 12, 13, when people used to buy us 68 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,700 alcohol. As an adult now, I'd be like, no way. 69 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:57,460 We were allowed to go out all day with the kids and hang around down the local 70 00:04:57,460 --> 00:04:58,460 park. 71 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:02,060 And we used to hang around down the hydro swimming pool. 72 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:05,060 And then off to the side of that was the blue roof. 73 00:05:08,940 --> 00:05:13,620 Yeah, so always hung around down the Blue Roofs area from a young kid, around 74 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:15,640 about, you know, 11, 12, 13. 75 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:21,340 The Blue Roofs in the beginning was a really fun place to hang out with your 76 00:05:21,340 --> 00:05:26,200 mates. We were always just running in and out and in one person's home and 77 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:27,460 in another person's home. 78 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:33,080 It was a lovely community, but I suppose when you're hanging around with kids, 79 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:37,360 you just see the kids sort of thing. You don't know what it's like when it comes 80 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:38,360 to the adults. 81 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:44,600 There was a lot of drugs there, I guess. I mean, I was quite sheltered from 82 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:45,600 that. 83 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:50,760 One of my birthdays, I think it was my 14th birthday, where we were hanging 84 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,560 around, we kind of thought, should we get some puff or solids, whatever it's 85 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,120 called now. My friends were encouraging, well, let's go and get some. We didn't 86 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,440 know how much it cost. We didn't know how to smoke it, roll it or anything. 87 00:06:02,980 --> 00:06:06,800 But someone said, well, Martin Butler's the drug dealer. Why don't you go and 88 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:07,739 knock on his door? 89 00:06:07,740 --> 00:06:09,600 And I was petrified to do that. 90 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,740 Half of our friends there lived on the estate. 91 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,360 They already knew Martin. 92 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,860 We were really young and he was like mid -thirties. 93 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:33,580 He would have his windows wide open with like the loudest music playing on the 94 00:06:33,580 --> 00:06:36,900 estate so you'd be able to hear him from all over the estate. 95 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,500 He opened the door and he let me in and I was all by myself so it was quite 96 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:44,500 scary. 97 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:50,840 It was a real run -down, dirty property and it was all dark, the curtains were 98 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:53,240 closed, it smelled of cigarettes and alcohol. 99 00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:57,180 And he pulled out a big bag and he said, here, take your pick. 100 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,980 So I didn't know what it was I was taking, obviously some kind of drug. 101 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,240 And then he was trying to talk to me, it was really uncomfortable. 102 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,220 And I got out there as quick as I could do and run back to my friends. 103 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:13,360 And when... 104 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,359 The party came. 105 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,220 That's when things got a lot more serious. 106 00:07:18,580 --> 00:07:20,460 He got custody of his daughter. 107 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:26,240 So he'd spent a long time organising the big party for her. She was 14, but we 108 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:27,480 were all invited to his house. 109 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:32,200 It wasn't a usual kids' party. There was no cake, there was no balloons, there 110 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,960 was no banners. There wasn't even birthday presents or anything like that. 111 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,380 was just alcohol, music, drugs. 112 00:07:41,740 --> 00:07:44,900 all out on the table ready for people to help themselves. 113 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,540 He had a corner sofa, which meant that he could stand in the middle and have 114 00:07:50,540 --> 00:07:51,980 audience surrounding him. 115 00:07:53,660 --> 00:07:58,880 He had a letter opener that was like a dagger, and he'd put speed on the end of 116 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,840 it and put it in everyone's mouth. 117 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,420 If you hesitated, he'd put more on it. 118 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:08,960 It quickly became a situation that you're stuck in, and then, of course, 119 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,520 you come up on the drugs... 120 00:08:11,020 --> 00:08:14,620 You can't exactly walk out into the street or try and go home. 121 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,440 So the party escalated quite quickly. 122 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,960 There was like a house full up with kids on ecstasy. 123 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,660 It was really loud music to the point you couldn't really hear each other. 124 00:08:29,020 --> 00:08:35,299 He gave me ecstasy and lots of other kids ecstasy and speed 125 00:08:35,299 --> 00:08:39,240 and fetamines and we were as high as a kite. 126 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:47,880 The house was absolutely packed with adults and kids dancing around, having 127 00:08:48,020 --> 00:08:50,400 He kind of whispered in my ear, follow me. 128 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:55,600 And he took me into the bathroom and he locked the door. 129 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,060 One of my friends said that they looked underneath the door and they could see 130 00:09:01,060 --> 00:09:05,160 our feet together so that they knew that maybe something like a kiss had 131 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:06,160 happened. 132 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:08,540 But it was more than a kiss. 133 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:18,960 He undone his flies and he got his bits out and he put my hand on 134 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:24,020 his private area and he encouraged me to move my hand. 135 00:09:24,380 --> 00:09:26,080 And, yeah, 136 00:09:27,180 --> 00:09:31,800 I didn't realise I was walking into that situation. I don't know why I didn't 137 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,200 stop it or scream or leave. 138 00:09:34,540 --> 00:09:39,700 I think I was just petrified. I was absolutely petrified. I was scared of 139 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,540 I kind of went into this little girl mode where I would just feel really 140 00:09:44,540 --> 00:09:51,400 and not know what to do, but to just be in that moment and do what was expected 141 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:56,540 of me. And he'd done his flies up and he walked out of the bathroom and that was 142 00:09:56,540 --> 00:09:58,480 that. And I couldn't believe what had happened. 143 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:00,620 And I felt powerless. 144 00:10:09,260 --> 00:10:11,700 The grooming started when I was 14. 145 00:10:13,060 --> 00:10:17,040 At the weekend, we would hang around down a local park and get drunk with our 146 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:18,040 friends and stuff. 147 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,400 And then all of a sudden, he would be hanging around the park. 148 00:10:22,740 --> 00:10:28,500 He knew exactly what he was doing from the beginning, giving us drugs and drink 149 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:33,160 and reeling us in. And then I soon become... I was definitely dependent on 150 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,940 alcohol and addicted to drugs. 151 00:10:37,670 --> 00:10:42,530 When his daughter was around, us kids would then knock on the door to see her. 152 00:10:42,830 --> 00:10:47,730 And because we kind of had free run of the place, up and down in the bedroom or 153 00:10:47,730 --> 00:10:51,790 sit on the sofa and we could help ourselves to cigarettes and cans of 154 00:10:52,010 --> 00:10:56,150 maybe you feel a bit more like you're an adult than the kid that you are. 155 00:10:58,410 --> 00:11:02,690 In some ways it was somewhere to escape to, you know, because it was a shelter. 156 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,600 The house was like a party house, six out of seven days. There would be, like, 157 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:08,940 full up with people in there. 158 00:11:10,220 --> 00:11:11,220 I love this film. 159 00:11:11,540 --> 00:11:16,460 We would have a night of being with everybody and drinking and taking drugs 160 00:11:16,460 --> 00:11:17,460 stuff. 161 00:11:18,220 --> 00:11:20,700 But then I would completely black out. 162 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:26,080 Then when I would wake up in the morning, he would say, like, oh, we had 163 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,340 really good time last night and I made love to you. 164 00:11:30,669 --> 00:11:35,730 So one, I then realised we had had sex and two, because I couldn't remember it, 165 00:11:35,790 --> 00:11:38,170 I assumed that I consented to it. 166 00:11:39,110 --> 00:11:44,030 Then all of a sudden he told me that he was in love with me and he'd given me 167 00:11:44,030 --> 00:11:45,030 this jewellery. 168 00:11:45,270 --> 00:11:50,310 And then his daughter come back and she walked in and there he was saying, I've 169 00:11:50,310 --> 00:11:51,310 got something to tell you. 170 00:11:51,470 --> 00:11:56,330 And she knew straight away. She just looked at him and looked at me and said, 171 00:11:56,330 --> 00:11:57,330 just remember. 172 00:12:01,230 --> 00:12:02,230 Are you okay? 173 00:12:02,390 --> 00:12:06,490 No, it's fine, it's fine. I just never forget her face. 174 00:12:08,730 --> 00:12:14,610 And she just looked at me and looked at him and just said, no, not my friend. 175 00:12:17,490 --> 00:12:22,550 And I just, again, I just don't know why I didn't speak up for myself. 176 00:12:22,890 --> 00:12:24,830 I don't know why I didn't stop it. 177 00:12:25,250 --> 00:12:27,270 I can't believe I'd done that to my friend. 178 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,480 After a short while, she moved to be with her mum and she wasn't on the 179 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:48,320 so I was kind of left having whatever you want to call it, a relationship with 180 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:49,320 him. 181 00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:54,580 So he detached me from everything that made me a kid. 182 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,480 He would say that no -one accepted me for me. 183 00:12:59,620 --> 00:13:03,820 No -one loved me as much as he loved me, that sort of thing. My family didn't 184 00:13:03,820 --> 00:13:05,620 get me, my parents didn't get me. 185 00:13:14,830 --> 00:13:19,250 When I went home, my parents didn't really know what I'd been up to, so they 186 00:13:19,250 --> 00:13:20,870 weren't alarmed by anything. 187 00:13:22,850 --> 00:13:27,710 And that was over the ages of, yeah, really, 14 to 16. 188 00:13:30,030 --> 00:13:36,570 And I think that's where then there was an overlap between Laura and I, and him 189 00:13:36,570 --> 00:13:38,330 and Laura had already started something. 190 00:13:38,910 --> 00:13:43,770 I don't know why, in my mind, I wasn't scared for her. 191 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:48,400 I wasn't scared for her, and I should have been. 192 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:59,860 Everyone knew about Lauren and no -one stopped it, whereas with me, no -one 193 00:13:59,860 --> 00:14:02,040 knew, cos I was, like, really shy. 194 00:14:03,180 --> 00:14:05,720 I was, like, really painfully shy. 195 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,680 As my dad's violence escalated... 196 00:14:12,310 --> 00:14:17,010 Because my family life was so bad and because my mental health was suffering 197 00:14:17,010 --> 00:14:22,550 much, like, if I got thrown out, in the night -time, you can't just walk up to, 198 00:14:22,630 --> 00:14:26,350 like, a school friend's house and say, ''Hi, can I come in?'' Because they'd be 199 00:14:26,350 --> 00:14:28,330 like, ''Oh, no, it's school night.'' Of course you can't. 200 00:14:30,350 --> 00:14:32,430 I was only 14 years old. 201 00:14:35,690 --> 00:14:40,310 So I quickly made it so I didn't really have a lot of choice of a... 202 00:14:40,940 --> 00:14:45,040 then to go back there, you know, to Martin's house. 203 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:55,660 So, at first, I'd wake up on the sofa with him spooning up next to me, like, 204 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:59,800 almost pinning me on the sofa, and then, like, putting his hands down my pants 205 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:00,559 and stuff. 206 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,100 I remember that happening, like, more than once. 207 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:09,060 And then, from there, it, like, progressed really quite fast, I think. 208 00:15:10,660 --> 00:15:14,100 because I think there was, like, you know, a lot of drugs involved. 209 00:15:15,420 --> 00:15:22,000 Sometimes I would come to and there'd be no -one else there and that was always 210 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,800 when, like, the abuse would happen. 211 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:31,200 Most of the abuse was waking up with him doing things to me, 212 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:36,840 coming to and realising that I didn't always have control over my body because 213 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,140 sometimes I was restrained. 214 00:15:39,790 --> 00:15:46,390 There was a few times when I was genuinely very, very scared. 215 00:15:46,730 --> 00:15:52,730 Like, the most time that haunts me is... 216 00:15:52,730 --> 00:15:59,550 ..I woke up being raped by him with his 217 00:15:59,550 --> 00:16:06,290 hands around my neck and to the point where, like, 218 00:16:06,450 --> 00:16:07,630 I passed out. 219 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,020 I thought I was dying. 220 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:16,740 And I remember coming to and just sitting up, bolt upright, and seeing my 221 00:16:16,740 --> 00:16:18,780 life flash before my eyes. 222 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:26,700 And really, in that moment, knowing that he 223 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:33,640 could quite easily kill me, and I knew at that moment that I've 224 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:34,820 got to get away from him. 225 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:38,820 That I was probably going to die there if I didn't. 226 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:51,200 As I grew older and the years went by, I really suffered terribly with anxiety 227 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,020 and panic attacks. 228 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:58,880 So I had gone to get therapy, hypnotherapy, and all of a sudden it was 229 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,680 lightbulb moment in that therapy session. 230 00:17:02,719 --> 00:17:07,480 maybe somebody else saying out loud all of the stuff that he had done to me and 231 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,140 realising it was very, very wrong. 232 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:10,440 I was a kid. 233 00:17:13,060 --> 00:17:18,339 Shortly after that, I did go to the police and I remember going in so scared 234 00:17:18,339 --> 00:17:19,800 I didn't really know what I was going to say. 235 00:17:21,980 --> 00:17:27,800 I just said, I want to report this guy that I've been sexually active with 236 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:28,800 the age of 14. 237 00:17:29,980 --> 00:17:32,480 And I don't know who to speak to about it. 238 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:38,700 And the police officer just said, well, have you got any evidence of this? And, 239 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:43,640 you know, I just said, well, no, just in me telling you. And they said, well, if 240 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,340 you don't have any evidence, then there's nothing we can do about it. 241 00:17:46,580 --> 00:17:50,700 And I left the police station that day thinking nothing would ever come of it. 242 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,800 I'm just living with it, learning to just live with it. 243 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:04,590 As the years went on, I started to realise how bad the abuse I went through 244 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:10,030 If you've been raped, it's really hard to have a healthy sex life afterwards. 245 00:18:10,470 --> 00:18:15,030 And especially if it was your first ever encounter, I didn't have a sense of 246 00:18:15,030 --> 00:18:19,930 what was normal. I couldn't fit into a normal, healthy relationship after that. 247 00:18:20,830 --> 00:18:25,750 I was 28 when I walked into the police station that day. 248 00:18:26,390 --> 00:18:28,510 So it had been a long time coming. 249 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,500 13 years since I'd got away from him. 250 00:18:32,020 --> 00:18:35,340 A video camera has been nicked off of me in the street robbery. 251 00:18:36,340 --> 00:18:41,500 So when I reported that to the police station, they didn't really take it very 252 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:42,740 seriously about the camera. 253 00:18:43,020 --> 00:18:48,840 And then I was like, and one more thing, when I was a teenager, I was raped and 254 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,280 abused and drugged by a really horrible man. 255 00:18:51,580 --> 00:18:54,340 And the man at the desk was just like... 256 00:18:54,570 --> 00:18:55,690 What? What are you saying? 257 00:18:55,930 --> 00:19:00,970 And I was just like, I think I want to report it. And he was like, oh, OK, well 258 00:19:00,970 --> 00:19:05,050 done. So I just found myself, yeah, telling the police everything, giving 259 00:19:05,050 --> 00:19:07,750 all the evidence I had, giving them the jewellery that he'd bought me. 260 00:19:08,410 --> 00:19:13,910 And they said, well, have you got any witnesses? And I was like, OK. So I 261 00:19:13,910 --> 00:19:15,570 started thinking about Lauren. 262 00:19:16,150 --> 00:19:17,630 So I contacted her. 263 00:19:19,270 --> 00:19:22,450 Before I knew it, the police were coming round to interview me. 264 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,140 I felt great about it. I thought, there's no way he's going to get away 265 00:19:27,820 --> 00:19:29,800 We were given the court date. 266 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:33,820 I remember getting all dressed up and ready to go to court. 267 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Really, really nervous. 268 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:42,980 And then all of a sudden, I got a phone call saying, it's not happening. 269 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,060 It's been thrown out due to a technicality. 270 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,240 On the first day, it was thrown out. 271 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:52,980 And that's it, he got away with it. 272 00:19:54,740 --> 00:19:56,500 I was pretty inconsolable. 273 00:19:57,780 --> 00:20:02,240 After waiting two years, it just took up every part of me, those two years, 274 00:20:02,300 --> 00:20:03,300 really. 275 00:20:03,820 --> 00:20:07,560 Because the police basically shut me down, that there was nothing I could do 276 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,560 about it, I didn't know what to do about it. 277 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,380 I started thinking to myself, hang on a minute, this isn't right, and if he's 278 00:20:13,380 --> 00:20:17,540 done it to me, he can do it to other people, and that's what frightened me 279 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:18,540 most. 280 00:20:51,660 --> 00:20:55,260 No matter what lies you tell yourself, you did this. 281 00:20:56,120 --> 00:21:00,460 Today, Lady Justice is staring down a super predator. 282 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:01,960 You. 283 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:16,260 Around that time, I had such a fire in my belly. 284 00:21:17,260 --> 00:21:20,580 I was influenced by everyone posting their stories online. 285 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,280 I just had my first daughter a year and a half before. 286 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:29,160 I was terrified, you know, society as it is, bringing up a daughter into it 287 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:34,880 after what I went through. I was a very, very angry young woman and I felt like 288 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,920 I could try and get some justice. 289 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,620 I think the Me Too movement helped me find the language as well. 290 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,560 The thought of him walking around the streets still gives me absolute terror. 291 00:21:50,890 --> 00:21:55,270 Just even the thought of him, like, watching, like, a schoolgirl walk past 292 00:21:55,270 --> 00:21:57,790 something just makes me feel sick to the bone, you know? 293 00:22:00,530 --> 00:22:02,530 Like, I know exactly what's in his head. 294 00:22:04,770 --> 00:22:08,910 And, yeah, it's pretty terrifying. 295 00:22:14,170 --> 00:22:16,150 I found him on Facebook. 296 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:21,500 I kind of wanted to know where he was, so I thought if I can sort of spy on him 297 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:24,740 to some degree, it would make me feel safer. 298 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:32,960 I made a profile and called myself Lucy Bateman and used a picture of a 299 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,400 young -looking woman that could have been a teenager. 300 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:40,320 He had fallen for it hook, line and sinker, like he added her straight away. 301 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,740 And I saw that there were loads of photographs, people had tagged him in 302 00:22:45,740 --> 00:22:46,740 photograph. 303 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:52,620 So suddenly I knew what he looked like. He was an old man now, but he still 304 00:22:52,620 --> 00:22:53,620 looked like him. 305 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,980 I used editing software and just edited three photographs together and put the 306 00:23:02,980 --> 00:23:04,840 text underneath it about what had happened. 307 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,000 The moment I pressed send, 308 00:23:15,340 --> 00:23:16,900 Everyone started to share it. 309 00:23:17,140 --> 00:23:18,840 It had about 100 comments. 310 00:23:19,340 --> 00:23:22,700 Within a few days, it had been shared 1 ,700 times. 311 00:23:23,020 --> 00:23:26,260 So many stories were coming back to me about him from other people. 312 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,160 I knew that face straight away. 313 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:33,420 I remember him. He lived at Brickett's Close. He invited me into his flat. He 314 00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:34,960 tried to kiss me. I was 12. 315 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,740 In 1978, I lived on the road. 316 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,440 And all of us kids at the time would be playing out and he always talked to us, 317 00:23:43,540 --> 00:23:45,440 friendly but clearly now just a predator. 318 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,040 After him trying to stick his tongue down my throat, I didn't go in there 319 00:23:51,380 --> 00:23:54,620 After a few days, it all died down and people stopped messaging me. 320 00:23:55,540 --> 00:24:00,700 But then, two months later, I got a message saying that someone wanted to go 321 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:01,700 the police. 322 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:21,220 I recreated the blue roof from memory where I used to live. 323 00:24:22,340 --> 00:24:24,560 This is what it would look like if you was on Street View. 324 00:24:25,180 --> 00:24:29,340 And if you was to remove one and go down the alleyway, that's what you'd see, 325 00:24:29,380 --> 00:24:30,720 and you'd see the street behind. 326 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,580 And my door was the middle one, and it went up to the top flat. 327 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:41,900 When I moved into the blue roof, I felt vulnerable. 328 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,060 I was 19. 329 00:24:45,260 --> 00:24:46,300 I'd lost a baby. 330 00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:49,400 I had a pretty rough last year. 331 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,520 So that's my flat, the top of this one. 332 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,100 And his house was here. 333 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:03,780 When I met Martin and his daughter, because of my loss, you just have that 334 00:25:03,780 --> 00:25:06,760 feeling that you need to fill that gap. 335 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,380 And I just saw him as a single dad with a young girl, and I started babysitting 336 00:25:11,380 --> 00:25:12,580 at his place. 337 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,660 Yeah. That's him in the boat that I was in. 338 00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:22,500 I can't stand looking at that picture. I want to burn it. 339 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:29,860 But unfortunately, at the minute, I can't because it's important. 340 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:36,360 One day, I pulled up in the driveway, and my phone went ping, ping, ping. 341 00:25:36,580 --> 00:25:40,340 One of them, I just flicked up, and it was him, Butler. 342 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,080 There was a post about him. 343 00:25:42,670 --> 00:25:45,490 The ground opened up for me and I just screamed. I'm like, oh, my God. 344 00:25:46,870 --> 00:25:48,750 I didn't know there was other victims out there. 345 00:25:50,350 --> 00:25:51,750 I thought it was just only me. 346 00:25:52,230 --> 00:25:55,570 It's the first time I've actually thought about what can I do about it? 347 00:25:56,530 --> 00:25:57,530 I'm going to say nothing. 348 00:25:57,990 --> 00:26:02,050 I've done 30 -odd years with it in my brain and I know it's there and it won't 349 00:26:02,050 --> 00:26:05,770 ever go away, but I've dealt with it and I've been married, I've had kids and I 350 00:26:05,770 --> 00:26:09,110 can get on with that, but it's all surfaces, all the time, surfaces. 351 00:26:10,330 --> 00:26:11,930 And I thought, yeah, I could just hide. 352 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,960 I looked at my children and I saw them watching TV, laughing, and I thought, 353 00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:21,280 what if I met someone like him? 354 00:26:26,140 --> 00:26:28,480 I couldn't do it to another someone else. 355 00:26:31,580 --> 00:26:34,600 I think that's what made me think, no, no, we need to go to the cliff. 356 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,600 OK. 357 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,080 So, Mary, tell me why you're here today to talk to us. 358 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,280 A few weeks ago, I noticed a post that came on my social media, such as 359 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,220 Facebook, about someone that had affected me 30 years ago. 360 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,040 And I just thought I was the only one. 361 00:27:03,220 --> 00:27:08,120 Turns out I'm not one of the posts that I really feel. 362 00:27:10,190 --> 00:27:16,410 that I need to speak and tell you 363 00:27:16,410 --> 00:27:19,630 what happened and that 364 00:27:19,630 --> 00:27:29,630 I'm 365 00:27:29,630 --> 00:27:32,390 worried for other people. 366 00:27:34,910 --> 00:27:36,310 Elaine? 367 00:27:38,030 --> 00:27:39,630 is Martin Butler. 368 00:27:40,930 --> 00:27:43,590 He used to be a neighbour where I used to live. 369 00:27:50,010 --> 00:27:55,450 After a few months of knowing him, we 370 00:27:55,450 --> 00:28:01,250 had some intimate moments, 371 00:28:01,270 --> 00:28:03,570 relationship -wise. 372 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:09,140 And I felt it was safe when he asked me to go to his parents' house on holiday. 373 00:28:10,580 --> 00:28:16,060 We went round the little harbour village, got fish and chips, sat by the 374 00:28:16,060 --> 00:28:17,380 watching the boats coming in and out. 375 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,920 In the evening, we walked to the pub. It just seemed like he knew a lot of 376 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,100 people there and we just sat there chatting, having a drink. 377 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:29,100 We were both giggling and laughing and had a really good evening, just so 378 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:31,040 relaxing and just felt good. 379 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:34,660 And I remember we were getting a taxi, but yeah, he got out and said, are we... 380 00:28:34,810 --> 00:28:38,050 Got to be a bit quiet because, you know, parents are asleep, daughter's asleep. 381 00:28:38,610 --> 00:28:44,630 I woke 382 00:28:44,630 --> 00:28:51,530 up with my 383 00:28:51,530 --> 00:28:54,430 hands tied and my legs tied. 384 00:28:54,730 --> 00:29:01,650 And then I... And I realised I couldn't move. I then started to say to 385 00:29:01,650 --> 00:29:03,730 Martin, or went to say to Martin... 386 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,760 What are you doing? I think I got the words out. What were you before? 387 00:29:09,020 --> 00:29:10,360 He then attacked me. 388 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,560 Take your time. 389 00:29:28,140 --> 00:29:30,840 He inched my nose and my mouth. 390 00:29:33,260 --> 00:29:34,360 So I couldn't breathe. 391 00:29:36,220 --> 00:29:39,800 He then proceeded to rape me. 392 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,360 The light started going dim. 393 00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:48,220 It just started getting very dark. 394 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,680 I thought I was going to die at that point. 395 00:29:56,660 --> 00:30:01,000 I moved my head slightly right. 396 00:30:01,810 --> 00:30:05,370 which released the grip slightly, and then I pulled it right back into the 397 00:30:05,370 --> 00:30:06,370 pillow. 398 00:30:06,890 --> 00:30:08,650 And at that point, I could then breathe. 399 00:30:08,990 --> 00:30:13,290 So I took the deepest breath I could and screamed, No, get off me. 400 00:30:13,930 --> 00:30:14,930 What are you doing? 401 00:30:15,090 --> 00:30:16,330 Get me out of this. 402 00:30:17,650 --> 00:30:20,890 At the time this happened, did you report it to police? 403 00:30:21,330 --> 00:30:23,150 No. OK, why not? 404 00:30:24,270 --> 00:30:28,550 I felt it was... I felt... 405 00:30:30,220 --> 00:30:32,040 I put myself in a position. 406 00:30:32,860 --> 00:30:38,100 He blames me, I blame him. I didn't... I'm scared. 407 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:39,560 I'm scared of him. 408 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:47,640 Rape wasn't me spoken about or attacks. 409 00:30:49,740 --> 00:30:51,700 I don't know if anyone would believe me. 410 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:59,080 There's a lot of things that, while you don't talk about it, Shane, disgust. 411 00:31:01,779 --> 00:31:05,800 He actually said, it's all your fault, it's all your fault, rubbing his hands 412 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,920 his hand. I just remember him doing it. Oh, my teeth are sick. 413 00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:15,600 So that blame, I kept it. 414 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,800 The time, the era, you don't talk about it. 415 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,220 You know, I come from a family it's not spoken about. 416 00:31:23,460 --> 00:31:25,320 You just don't, you don't say nothing. 417 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,560 You just keep it all hidden. 418 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,380 You actually think if you don't say nothing, it's going to go away. 419 00:31:30,830 --> 00:31:37,330 And you don't need to talk about it again, but unfortunately it doesn't go 420 00:31:45,850 --> 00:31:50,310 In 2018, I was given this case that involved Mary. 421 00:31:52,450 --> 00:31:58,150 Her video was really compelling and straight away I... 422 00:31:58,740 --> 00:32:04,740 believed what she was saying on the video all rape investigations are very 423 00:32:04,740 --> 00:32:08,680 difficult because normally speaking there's only two people in the room so 424 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:13,180 there's no actual witnesses you witness what happened so therefore you have to 425 00:32:13,180 --> 00:32:17,720 think about the context of what's happened what happened before what 426 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:23,020 afterwards who they've spoken to Mary had given us a list of the people that 427 00:32:23,020 --> 00:32:26,720 had told and we spoke to all of those people and they all gave us witness 428 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:27,720 statements 429 00:32:28,330 --> 00:32:30,950 I would have spoken to Martin Butler's parents. 430 00:32:31,170 --> 00:32:34,930 They would have been quite key witnesses, but unfortunately they were 431 00:32:34,930 --> 00:32:35,930 alive. 432 00:32:36,410 --> 00:32:39,350 Martin Butler was interviewed by the Metropolitan Police. 433 00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:41,690 He didn't say much in his interview. 434 00:32:42,270 --> 00:32:46,790 He acknowledged that he had been in a relationship with Mary, but obviously 435 00:32:46,790 --> 00:32:47,790 he hadn't raped her. 436 00:32:48,670 --> 00:32:51,430 When they got the case together, they sent it off to CPS. 437 00:32:52,490 --> 00:32:57,170 It was a waiting game to decide whether it was going to go to court. 438 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:03,600 I can't remember how long it was, but I got my first email from CPS saying that 439 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,860 even though my video evidence was very compelling, they didn't think there was 440 00:33:07,860 --> 00:33:11,360 enough evidence to put it in front of a jury. 441 00:33:29,260 --> 00:33:33,860 A prosecutor will have to determine whether or not there is a realistic 442 00:33:33,860 --> 00:33:39,200 of conviction and whether it is in the public interest to proceed against any 443 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,900 particular suspect. 444 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:47,900 Ultimately, it is an exercise in judgment and lawyers disagree and that's 445 00:33:47,900 --> 00:33:49,180 lawyers argue in court. 446 00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:54,520 I might consider that some evidence is admissible where another lawyer might 447 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,240 consider that it's not admissible. 448 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:02,700 was the person making the decision under the scheme, so it was my judgment that 449 00:34:02,700 --> 00:34:04,060 was important on this occasion. 450 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:09,900 I think the reason why I appealed for the second time was when Sarah phoned me 451 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:12,679 up. She said to me, you can appeal again, you can appeal more than once. 452 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,480 And it's all the way she said it. I'm like, what do you know that I don't 453 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:21,320 I get that feeling she made me feel she wanted me to appeal, but she couldn't 454 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:22,319 actually say why. 455 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,800 I became aware of Laura and Lauren's case. 456 00:34:27,389 --> 00:34:30,210 by way of a report provided to me by the police. 457 00:34:30,449 --> 00:34:35,889 And having seen that one reference in their original interviews to 458 00:34:35,889 --> 00:34:41,370 sadomasochistic behaviour on Butler's part, I was determined that the police 459 00:34:41,370 --> 00:34:48,210 would leave no stone unturned and re -interview those witnesses and find out 460 00:34:48,210 --> 00:34:51,929 full extent of what his behaviour was towards them. 461 00:34:52,670 --> 00:34:55,870 The Metropolitan Police still had their files about their investigation into 462 00:34:55,870 --> 00:35:00,270 Lauren and Laura and what they had said that Martin Butler had done to them. 463 00:35:00,670 --> 00:35:05,290 What Martin had done to Mary was very similar to what he had done to Lauren 464 00:35:05,290 --> 00:35:09,330 Laura. When you've got similar type of offending, that's when you can apply to 465 00:35:09,330 --> 00:35:12,530 the court to use those as bad character witnesses. 466 00:35:14,250 --> 00:35:18,230 All of a sudden I got a phone call out of the blue saying that someone had come 467 00:35:18,230 --> 00:35:21,290 forward. Really? Could this be possible? 468 00:35:21,590 --> 00:35:22,950 Could we finally get him? 469 00:35:23,890 --> 00:35:29,130 When the cops came to my house to interview me, it gave me a little bit of 470 00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:34,190 but in reality, I didn't really trust the system to help me. 471 00:35:35,110 --> 00:35:37,370 They went through it with a fine tooth comb. 472 00:35:39,190 --> 00:35:41,090 Then I got the letter. 473 00:35:42,990 --> 00:35:46,790 They did find enough evidence to have it realistic. 474 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:48,740 prospects of a conviction. 475 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:03,520 Look, there's Laura. 476 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,580 So really, we've known each other since we were about two? 477 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,840 Yes. So that's me. 478 00:36:10,940 --> 00:36:11,940 That's Laura. 479 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,620 You just look so young. So young. 480 00:36:14,980 --> 00:36:18,350 And soon after that, I met... Martin Butler. 481 00:36:19,530 --> 00:36:20,910 What was he like? 482 00:36:21,730 --> 00:36:22,910 He was different. 483 00:36:23,250 --> 00:36:26,930 I mean, he wasn't a friend, but I would go and maybe have a beer with him and 484 00:36:26,930 --> 00:36:27,930 say hello. 485 00:36:28,750 --> 00:36:32,770 Oblivious to what he'd already been up to with previous... He must have been 486 00:36:32,770 --> 00:36:34,950 laughing. It makes me sick. 487 00:36:35,150 --> 00:36:36,830 He must have been laughing at me. 488 00:36:37,950 --> 00:36:40,570 I just cannot believe the... 489 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:47,220 what Lauren went through without the help of us as parents, and I can't 490 00:36:47,220 --> 00:36:48,440 myself for that. Didn't have a clue. 491 00:36:49,780 --> 00:36:52,260 As things moved on, just didn't have a clue. 492 00:36:52,740 --> 00:36:54,080 We trusted everyone. 493 00:36:54,340 --> 00:36:56,380 Yeah. We just trusted. 494 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,340 But you both didn't know the half of it. 495 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:03,060 Because you always dropped me off at my best friend's, and you met the mums and 496 00:37:03,060 --> 00:37:05,400 the dads, so why would you think anything different? 497 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,100 I hid an awful lot. I hid everything from you. 498 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:14,120 There was one time when I was in his home and I heard the car and I said to 499 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:18,920 that's my mum or my dad. And he said, oh, don't be silly, it's just a car. But 500 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,080 knew the sound of our car. 501 00:37:20,540 --> 00:37:24,060 And you come knocking on the door and I'd run upstairs and I could hear you, 502 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,420 broke my heart. And he lied to me. He did. 503 00:37:26,660 --> 00:37:27,800 He said that you weren't there. 504 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:31,500 And I just didn't know where to go and look for you. I walked in the woods 505 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:36,680 I just couldn't find you. I thought you might be just playing with your friends 506 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:37,680 in the woods. 507 00:37:38,570 --> 00:37:40,130 But I just couldn't find you. 508 00:37:42,010 --> 00:37:43,230 I'm just so sorry. 509 00:37:44,010 --> 00:37:46,970 Just so sorry. Please, don't say sorry, Lauren. 510 00:37:47,230 --> 00:37:48,590 Putting you through it, you know. 511 00:37:49,290 --> 00:37:51,350 No, don't ever say sorry. 512 00:38:05,630 --> 00:38:12,320 When it came round to the trial, I was totally petrified in being in the same 513 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,100 space as him, hearing his voice. 514 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:15,980 I didn't want to be nowhere near him. 515 00:38:16,220 --> 00:38:20,660 And it kept going in my head, what if they find him not guilty and I'd have to 516 00:38:20,660 --> 00:38:22,360 walk out on the same bit of street as him? 517 00:38:22,860 --> 00:38:24,960 The fear was impossible. 518 00:38:25,980 --> 00:38:27,840 So I asked if I could do a video link. 519 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:33,840 Lauren and Laura, both of them wanted to come to Truro to ask their questions in 520 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,580 person. In the witness room, we were... 521 00:38:37,020 --> 00:38:37,979 Kept separately. 522 00:38:37,980 --> 00:38:41,540 We weren't allowed to talk to anyone, not even each other. 523 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,280 I was hyperventilating the morning. 524 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,720 My body was shaking. I was so nervous I couldn't speak. 525 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,600 The first day, I was meant to be cross -examined, but it actually turned out 526 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,700 that he didn't turn up till 2 o 'clock in the afternoon. He should have been 527 00:38:56,700 --> 00:38:57,700 there at 10 in the morning. 528 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,900 His behaviour through it all was thinking that it's an old case, they've 529 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,700 evidence what they're going to do, I'm going to walk out of this. The way he 530 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:06,700 so... 531 00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:12,060 confident and, like, cocky with the court system. He did think he was above 532 00:39:12,060 --> 00:39:17,760 law. So I had to go back to the court again the next day and the screen comes 533 00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:22,580 and all I got to see was the judge, his barrister, my barrister. He was trying 534 00:39:22,580 --> 00:39:26,500 to suggest to the court that nothing had actually happened because we continued 535 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:27,500 a relationship. 536 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,360 And I just had to be firm and say, no, that didn't happen, that's a lie, this 537 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:33,360 the reason why. 538 00:39:33,740 --> 00:39:36,560 I was a bit, like, bewildered at what was kind of going on. 539 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:43,280 His barrister tried to insinuate that I presented myself to him first and it 540 00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:48,620 wasn't him. I still didn't know if we were going to be believed because I kind 541 00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:53,720 of went back into that, like, little girl mode of it was my fault, you know, 542 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:57,400 must have been my fault sort of thing, so I didn't know whether I would be able 543 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,360 to come across to the jury. 544 00:39:59,950 --> 00:40:06,050 as um that it was his fault and not necessarily mine it's very difficult 545 00:40:06,050 --> 00:40:11,010 cross -examined by a defense barrister who's only doing their job but trying to 546 00:40:11,010 --> 00:40:14,910 make out that you're not telling the truth you've got three women saying that 547 00:40:14,910 --> 00:40:21,430 martin butler has done very similar things to them at three different times 548 00:40:21,430 --> 00:40:25,770 the jury are hearing all of this but there's no actual witnesses you witness 549 00:40:25,770 --> 00:40:29,870 what happened we just left the court that day thinking actually we feel he's 550 00:40:29,870 --> 00:40:36,750 going to get off again that was a really anxious day for me i just had to 551 00:40:36,750 --> 00:40:41,970 hope and pray that the jury could see the truth and come to their conclusion 552 00:40:41,970 --> 00:40:48,070 that actually no he isn't safe to walk around he's dangerous he will hurt 553 00:40:48,070 --> 00:40:53,550 another person he's in him he's not going to stop he's just going to keep 554 00:40:53,550 --> 00:40:54,690 until someone stops him 555 00:40:55,670 --> 00:40:59,310 It got later and later in the day and I'm like, oh my God, it's like half past 556 00:40:59,310 --> 00:41:01,210 three, about quarter to four, four o 'clock. 557 00:41:02,130 --> 00:41:05,150 And I got the phone call and I went, oh my God, your heart's in your mouth. 558 00:41:05,390 --> 00:41:06,710 I just said, yeah, hello. 559 00:41:08,690 --> 00:41:10,130 Guilty. Straight up guilty. 560 00:41:10,550 --> 00:41:12,570 I'll never forget hearing those words, guilty. 561 00:41:12,890 --> 00:41:13,910 Oh my God. 562 00:41:14,190 --> 00:41:15,470 Yeah, it was a good, good feeling. 563 00:41:16,450 --> 00:41:20,170 When he got the guilty verdict, sorry, it just makes me emotional thinking 564 00:41:20,170 --> 00:41:23,590 it because it was just so poignant in my life, you know. 565 00:41:25,390 --> 00:41:26,390 Huge relief. 566 00:41:26,930 --> 00:41:28,150 It's a huge relief. 567 00:41:29,230 --> 00:41:31,850 Finally, finally, finally, the world has listened. 568 00:41:32,850 --> 00:41:34,670 Everyone's listened. Everyone's gone, yeah. 569 00:41:48,470 --> 00:41:52,330 Blue Roots are down there somewhere on that road. 570 00:41:52,730 --> 00:41:53,990 I haven't been back. 571 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:59,600 Since I left in 1990, I was there for two years living in fear. 572 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:06,360 So going back, this will probably set it in my mind that maybe it's not the 573 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,520 place that I was at the time, not the place. So hopefully it might help heal 574 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:12,520 a little bit. 575 00:42:24,259 --> 00:42:25,259 We've got you. 576 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:26,680 We're going to do it together. 577 00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:28,300 All right. 578 00:42:29,260 --> 00:42:33,380 I was saying to Laura, in some way, I know it's going to be hard. 579 00:42:33,820 --> 00:42:35,580 It could be quite healing. Yeah. 580 00:42:36,020 --> 00:42:37,100 That's what I think, actually. 581 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,960 It's just, yeah, my nan's all over the place. Cool, she's cool. 582 00:42:41,220 --> 00:42:42,440 Have you got waterproof mascara on? 583 00:42:43,260 --> 00:42:44,260 How's it not running? 584 00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,400 I don't know. 585 00:42:45,620 --> 00:42:46,620 I have no idea. 586 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,800 The only reason I wore mascara today, I was like, if I wear mascara, then I 587 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:50,840 can't cry. That's good. 588 00:43:13,230 --> 00:43:16,030 I'd never thought I'd be walking on this street ever again in my whole life. 589 00:43:16,750 --> 00:43:18,090 Because that was my flat there. 590 00:43:20,170 --> 00:43:24,170 I didn't tell my closest family, my mum, my dad, my sisters, what happened. 591 00:43:25,750 --> 00:43:32,510 When the article came out in the newspaper, I had to take this paper and 592 00:43:32,510 --> 00:43:37,930 mum. And then she just asked little questions and then she opened up about 593 00:43:37,930 --> 00:43:39,950 that in her past, it made her... 594 00:43:42,060 --> 00:43:47,780 talked to me about what happened to her and then then she just said to me you're 595 00:43:47,780 --> 00:43:54,740 very brave it's not what i expected people would say 596 00:43:54,740 --> 00:44:00,740 to me actually made me feel that i could have talked in the beginning this is 597 00:44:00,740 --> 00:44:06,860 the one 598 00:44:06,860 --> 00:44:08,780 should we go and have a look 599 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,240 You can still see everything in there. You can see in there. 600 00:44:14,620 --> 00:44:18,260 Yeah, that's it. It doesn't look that much different to me, to be honest. 601 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:24,060 When I look at that, I think to myself, I remember what happened in that room, I 602 00:44:24,060 --> 00:44:27,720 remember what happened in that room, and I remember what happened down there. 603 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,080 That's what it makes me... I remember literally standing here, the first time 604 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:33,160 ever did anything to me. 605 00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:38,200 Running out of the house and standing here wanting to go and get my tie to go 606 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,220 school because I'd left without the tie. 607 00:44:42,020 --> 00:44:45,560 If I had not met Martin Butler, my whole life would have been different. 608 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,200 But I wouldn't want to be different to who I am now. 609 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,860 It's given me a real feisty edge. 610 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,840 Anger actually got me the justice I deserved. 611 00:44:57,340 --> 00:44:58,279 You all right, darling? 612 00:44:58,280 --> 00:44:59,500 Yeah. You all right, man? 613 00:45:00,260 --> 00:45:02,860 So I feel, like, really happy, but... 614 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,640 It shouldn't have been such a battle to get the justice we got. It shouldn't 615 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:09,640 have been so hard. 616 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,060 I'm pleased that they've got a nice garden and stuff because it makes me 617 00:45:15,060 --> 00:45:18,840 think that that energy's gone now and things change. 618 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:26,280 Even though he's now in prison, he's not actually been trialled for myself and 619 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,240 Laura. But Laura and I get our justice because of Mary. 620 00:45:34,190 --> 00:45:38,010 I'll never be free of Martin Butler. He will always be there. 621 00:45:38,250 --> 00:45:39,910 But I definitely got closure. 622 00:45:40,130 --> 00:45:43,990 I could hold my head up higher and I felt proud of everything that we'd 623 00:45:43,990 --> 00:45:46,750 achieved. My life's more than just Martin Butler. 624 00:45:47,170 --> 00:45:48,170 Yeah. 625 00:45:51,150 --> 00:45:52,910 That's it. I've seen it now. 626 00:45:54,590 --> 00:45:56,810 Put it where it belongs and move on. 627 00:45:59,370 --> 00:46:00,410 We're here together. 628 00:46:01,580 --> 00:46:05,200 We're all thriving in life. Like, you know, we're trying, aren't we? 54203

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