had had an on-and-off relationship with, had been intimate with, after all. Wasn’t I making a big fuss about nothing? Surely this was a lovers’ tiff? The over-reaction of an attention-seeking, hysterical young woman. I was a timewaster, a liar – at least that was what I was being told. He was convicted of harassment two weeks later, and sentenced to 18 weeks in prison, of which he could expect to serve nine. In actual fact, he only spent a weekend in prison; after the trial his solicitor sprang into action, arguing that as a prison officer he was in too much danger from other inmates – and his
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