When 16-year-old Angela Barker gradually regained consciousness, she thought she must have been in a car crash. It was the only explanation she could find for why she was lying in a hospital bed, surrounded by her tearful parents, Helen and Ian, unable to move anything but her eyelids.
But horrendously, what had left Anj, from Victoria, with such life-altering injuries had nothing to do with a car.
The teenager’s 20-year-old ex-boyfriend was responsible, and after beating her to near death in the grounds