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I turned DETECTIVE to JAIL MY RAPIST

Alison Quigley, 54, Sunshine Coast, Qld

She’s flying! I thought, awe-struck.

I was watching the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and gymnast Nadia Comaneci was doing her gold-medal routine.

Aged nine, I’d never seen anything like it. I had to be just like Nadia.

Badgering my mum, Judy, she signed me up to a gymnastics club at a leisure centre. I trained once a week, and when I wasn’t practising, I was doing handstands against the walls at home and jumping on furniture.

So Mum put me in a

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