It Could Have Been You

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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. APA style: A woman of Courage; Six years ago Merlyn Nuttall was brutally attacked and left for dead but her indomitable spirit pulled her through. She followed him and within minutes he was forcing her at knifepoint into an empty end-of-terrace house.

She survived the horrific rape and attempted murder but her fight for recovery and to gain compensation, brought her against some surprising areas of resistance - including the refusal of the NHS to pay for plastic surgery on her neck scars. A woman of Courage; Six years ago Merlyn Nuttall was brutally attacked and left for dead but her indomitable spirit pulled her through. Money is an important issue, she says, because there are so many things a victim might need almost immediately: a holiday, just to get away, especially while an attacker is still at large; a mobile phone for security, ditto a car; cosmetic surgery not available on the NHS; legal representation.Its got a hero in the fireman who helped her by putting a compress on the wounds to try stem the bleeding. She survived the horrific rape and attempted murder but her fight to recover, and to gain compensation, brought her into surprising areas of resistance - including a refusal by the NHS to pay for plastic surgery to her neck scars. Her throat was slit, the back of her neck was gouged almost to the bone with a shard of glass and she was stabbed.

Rape has the biggest impact on a victim of any Crime and we need to make sure the attackers actually pay for what they have done. Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie acts as a broker and offers finance from a restricted range of finance providers, PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. It is clear that while many of the services and people she encountered were exemplary, others were unhelpful and even potentially detrimental.I read this book in 1997 when I worked for the same company as Merlyn Nuttall did (BhS) and her story was being talked about amongst us. Her story is horrific, but it's one of enormous courage and survival, and instilled in me an even greater respect for women than I had before.