It Could Have Been You

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Before she leaves the house she checks who is in the street, she does not walk along pavements close to houses and avoids the Tube. Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Spine The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. As the title of the book implies, Merlyn refuses, absolutely rightly, to accept any shame or blame for the savagery which she suffered. The number of successful prosecutions has fallen from one in three cases in 1977 to one in 13 in 1999. Edges The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a.

But anyone who has forgotten the headlines in February 1992 - along the lines of "Sex fiend slashes girl's throat" - can check the hideous details in the book. It is being serialised in a national newspaper, and has been described as "a story of the triumph of the human spirit". It seems clear from reading the book that Merlyn survived the attack rather better than some friends and relatives, partly because of her euphoria at simply being alive. Not easily scarred Almost exactly five years ago Merlyn Nuttall was dragged off the street in broad daylight, sexually assaulted and almost killed. Everyone thought it was over, everyone thought the sentencing had given a conclusion to the whole traumatic event.Her story needs to be read to understand what actually happened to her on that fateful morning when she stopped to help. Merlyn, aged 37, who runs a fashion boutique in London, said she suspects her attacker was caught because the case was being treated as attempted murder and she was a businesswoman. Her story aims to help other victims - whether women or men - navigate the complex, sometimes indifferent, system and to provide vital information for others who care for victims. As the young woman, who was brought up in Astley Bridge, walked down a busy main road in Brixton she was grabbed by a man and dragged into a derelict house where she was subjected to an appalling sex attack.

Brave heart: Merlyn Nuttall, who was yesterday named the winner of the 1998 Cosmopolitan/House of Fraser Achievement Awards.She was thrown into an empty derelict house where Ferrira subjected her to an appalling sex attack, slit her throat, gouged the back of her neck almost to the bone with a shard of glass and stabbed her. But while she is irrevocably defined by her own experiences, she is determined not to make the assault a career.