Hailey's Story Quotes

“By today’s standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.”
― Hailey Giblin, Hailey's Story

“I used self-injury as a coping mechanism to help me overcome the emotional stress that I was incapable of dealing with in any other way. Self-injury was a means of escape, a way to relieve the numbness, and an expression of the pain within me. Something that the police wouldn’t care about.”
― Stephen Richards, Hailey's Story

“Another crucial problem was errors made by the
Cambridgeshire Police in their use of their ‘check
system’, which allowed Huntley to get a job at Soham
Village College.”
― Stephen Richards, Hailey's Story

“My brother Hayden’s friendship with James Webber
would be the catalyst for a fateful and accidental
meeting between me and the future Soham killer Ian
Huntley.”
― Stephen Richards, Hailey's Story

“I had not learned anything about Huntley that would
have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, ‘This guy likes to have sex with young girls.”
― Stephen Richards, Hailey's Story

“I believe that all sex offenders, and especially those with multiple allegations against them, should be made known to the locality where they live.”
― Stephen Richards, Hailey's Story

“The following month two further allegations against Huntley had been reported to social services by the families of other girls. On no occasion was there evidence upon which to prosecute Huntley. They say there is none so blind as those that refuse to see. I say there is none so blind as North East Lincolnshire Social Services and the Humberside Police Force.”
― Stephen Richards, Hailey's Story