I tried to kill myself after the cop who raped me was freed from jail Attack victim reveals torment
MUM OF SIX TELLS HOW SHOCK PUT HER IN HOSPITAL
claimclaiming he conned them into beliebelieving he was reformed.
She said: “He knows how to impress the pparole board, he knows exactly what to say. He’ll be laughing now.
“ThThey’re not thinking of the people he hahas hurt, it’s going to be with them for ththe rest of their lives.”
Candice met Mitchell when she was homeless, sleeping under bridges in Newcastle and stealing to feed her habit. She said: “The abuse went on a long time.
“He’d come to my home saying there was a warrant out for my arrest. Sometimes I’d just hide, I’d lie on the kitchen floor for hours. One time I went outside and screamed at him, but he just said, ‘I’m a police officer, I can do what I want’. He even came to my house when I was clean and off drugs. He gave me a bag of heroin, he knew I’d take it.”
Mitchell stood trial in 2010 for arresting victims on trumped- up charges and releasing them in return for sexual favours. When he was found guilty and jailed, psychiatrists warned he should never be freed.
Candice gave days of evidence as Mitchell denied having waged a brutal campaign of abuse.
The mum of six added: “Officers begged me to give evidence. They knew I’d been attacked but I didn’t want to go to court.
“But I did, and had to watch as he smiled at me in court. It was horrible.
“Then as soon as he was found guilty I was dropped like a hat. They’ve told me nothing, I had no contact, not even counselling.”
Nor thumbr ia Pol ic e sa i d : “Safeguarding and supporting vulnerable victims of crime is our top priority and if someone has been a victim of rape or sexual assault we would urge them to speak to us.”
A spokesman for the parole board refused to comment further on Mitchell’s case this week.
The decision to free him came three months before a change in law fol lowing the controversy over black cab rapist John Worboys.
They previously stated: “Decisions are focused on whether a prisoner would represent a significant risk.”