How one woman survived a notorious kidnapping, only to be traumatised by how she was treated afterwards.
By Andy Whittaker and Greig WatsonHeld captive for eight days by one of the UK's most notorious kidnappers, Stephanie Slater faced a new trauma in the aftermath of her release. She would go on to have a huge impact on how victims of crime are treated.
Speaking in a later interview, Stephanie said: "Don't get me wrong, I was terrified every single time I spoke to him. I thought 'I hope I don't say the wrong thing and make him angry'."In 1995, Stephanie published her own account of the kidnapping - Beyond Fear: My Will to Survive. "Then he said 'Don't look back at the car'. I fell out on to the pavement and the door shut behind me and he drove off at speed. When I opened my eyes, I was partially blind.
In a later interview she recalled: "He pushed me to the back of the room, sat me in a chair and said 'You stay there. Don't touch the arms of the chair. You sit there and don't do anything'."The reality of it is, you are back from a terrible ordeal and you see your mum or dad and you want to hold them or hug them.
"There was no empathy, it was kind of 'Right, next thing' - they pulled some hair out without saying that it was what going to happen.Image source,Stephanie felt upset at the way the police handled her case but later worked closely with forces to try to improve their treatment of women Through all of this she was not offered any counselling, leaving her and her family to deal with the aftermath alone.
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