Sarah Lavis

Yeah.

And I didn't tell my mum, which I think looking back, maybe if I would have, I'm not saying she's an overreactor, but I'm sure...

I think most mums would.

Yeah, I'm sure she would have looked into it a bit more.

But, you know, you're just young and you think, oh, well, I'm just being a bit silly here.

Yeah, see, we didn't even lock our doors because I lived on the farm.

Like when I first moved into town, I put my letters in the letterbox for the postman to collect.

So when I said to mum, why is he not taking them?

She's like, oh, no, that doesn't happen in town.

Like I just totally came from the farm, so I had no idea.

Yeah, so I'd been out and I'd come home.

I think it was like 2 o'clock in the morning.

My friends had brought me home and then we'd sat up and then they'd left and I went to bed.

So it was probably about 3, 3.30 in the morning and I got up to go to the toilet and he was standing in my doorway.

Yeah.

Everyone's nightmare.

And of course, being so naive, I was just like, I think you've got the wrong house.

Like, you know, trying to think, oh, he's a bit drunk, like try and get him out because I could see the back door was wide open and try and, and that's when it turned really violent.

obviously he hadn't walked into the wrong home no had he been in there do you think or like while your friends and that were there or had he come i don't think so i don't think so so yeah i remember it was like obviously the rape was pretty violent and then um

It's a bit blurry sometimes because I got hit in the head like I do.