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Woman abused by serial rapist who tried to fake his own death speaks out

A woman who was abused by a serial rapist is to tell her story in a BBC documentary for the first time since her abuser’s arrest.

Kim Avis was jailed for 15 years in 2021 for sex offences including rapes, having subjected four women to years of abuse, fled to the US, and staged his own death to avoid the charges.

Avis previously sold jewellery from a stall in in the and was well known to locals in the area

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