A woman who was raped when she was a schoolgirl was taken to court in handcuffs yesterday to see her attacker sentenced to eight years in jail.
She was 14 when a stranger dragged her off the street where she lived in south London, threatened her with a knife and raped her in the 1990s.
The attack had a "life-changing" effect on her. She went from the top of her form to drug abuse and is now serving a prison sentence.
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