Stace Don

So I had to follow him.

And then I remember playing football at school and I was on the school football pitch and I looked because I felt like, I felt someone watching me.

And I looked and there was these big green fences and I could see, I could see him through the green fence.

He was watching me while I was at school.

Yeah, literally it went from him not being my dad and then I was going and having these meetings with him and my sibling.

So he had access to my sibling as well because I used to see him and my sibling at the social services offices.

It was supposed to be eight visits, but after two I didn't go.

I didn't go back.

For some reason I just didn't want to go back.

No, I was like eight and then going on to nine.

Vaguely so.

I never heard my foster parents argue or anything like that.

And I know there was a court case because my mum was trying to get me back to go and live with her.

And they were talking about...

My dad.

And I heard an argument in the kitchen over it, you know, and I think everything just kind of came out of their control, you know, and they really wanted to protect me.

But it was beyond their remit, really, because apparently my mum had the residence order.

So when I was 10, I got took out of my foster parents' home and went back to live with my mum.

And my mum's partner, he was abusive.

He'd hit me with a bell.