Predator Nazir Ahmed, now 73, subjected her to horrific abuse almost every weekend for a year
A mum of-two who was repeatedly raped when she was a child by a local shopkeeper has bravely opened up on the harrowing ordeal after the predator was sent to prison. The woman, who has been given the pseudonym Kate to protect her anonymity, started working a weekend job at her local shop when she was 13 to earn money.
Ahmed was seen a "lovely and normal" guy in the community and ran the West End Store for around three decades, only retiring a few years ago. He targeted Kate weeks after she began to work as an assistant at his store. One weekend, on a trip back from a warehouse, he pulled his can over. Ahmed mostly pretended the abuse never happened but on a few occasions, he warned Kate about reporting him to the police. Kate said: "I pushed him off once and he told me, 'Nobody would ever believe you, you're nothing but a silly little girl, and if you did tell anyone, I'd tell them you sold yourself to me.' He made me feel as if I was the one in the wrong, as if I was the one who allowed him to do it. I felt disgusted.
While she spent three days in a psychiatric ward after attempting to take her own life, Kate did not feel safe speaking to staff about the abuse. She later confided in an adult but felt they "brushed it under the table" and this solidified her belief that no one would believe her.
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