‘Mum, a man attacked me... I’m scared’
Feb 11, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: TAMMY COHEN © DAILY MAIL/SOLO SYNDICATION.
It’s the call every parent dreads. Except I’d forgotten to keep dreading it. Billie is my youngest child, sensible and cautious, with two far more reckless older brothers. They had successfully made it through their teenage party years, there was no reason she wouldn’t, too.
‘She was alone and terrified’
I’d become complacent. I was reading in bed when my phone rang just after midnight on a rainy Friday night in January 2014. I assumed Billie was calling to tell me she’d be late. At 17, she didn’t have a curfew, as long as I knew what time to expect her. We’d recently moved to Bounds Green, north London – a mile or two
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