MUM TRAUMATISED

HORRIFIED Tori To Brown watched helplessly on her phone as her best pal plead pleaded for help with a pillowcase ove over her head. Ex-Playboy model mo Angelica Harte’s pleas turned to pi piercing cries as her evil captor demanded a ransom. He ordered To Tori to pay £5,000 and threatened to snip off a finger from the hostage for every hour she was late. He then upped the fig figure to £8,000. Tori’s anguish w was intensified because she knew what h her friend was going through – she to too had been a kidnap victim. The harrow harrowing scene brought back all the nightmare nightmares of her own ordeal. But then “victim” Harte and “kidnapper” D Darren Fitzpatrick knew this because they had staged the whole elabor elaborate hoax. The nasty pair were trying to con Tori out of her life savings. Tori, 40, is speaking for the first time about abo her pal’s betrayal which ha has left her with posttraumati traumatic stress disorder. She s said: “I never thought Angelic Angelica could have done this to me. She S used what I’d been through against me, hit me where I was vulnerable. ““I I ju just want her to know how m much she’s hurt me and what a an evil thing she’s done. “Bu “But I don’t think she has a cons conscience.”

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Former Form glamour model Tori met Ange Angelica in 2004 when they worked in a bar as lap dancers. Tori said: “I liked Angelica immediately and took her under my wing. She was very ve chatty and we had things in common common.

“She left work after a a few months but we managed to keep up with each others’ lives. She was fun. She made her life sound quite glamorous and, more importantly, she was there for me.”

Mum-of-four Tori stuck by Harte, 40, even though other people told her she was trouble. She said: “There was always some drama with Angelica.

“She’d ask to borrow money from me, or turn up at my house suddenly, asking to stay for a bit.”

At the beginning of this year, vulnerable Tori, who is bipolar, confided in Harte about the terrifying ordeal she had suffered at the hands of a former boyfriend in 2012.

Tori and a young teenage neighbour had been violently assaulted by him, for which he was jailed for eight months.

She had met her lover via Facebook and had been living with him for six months – but when she moved back home he did not like it.

She said: “He came after me to kidnap me and take me back. My young neighbour knew I was scared and tried to protect me.”

But Tori’s ex punched and knocked out the neighbour then pinned her down in her bedroom.

She said: “He poured a bottle of Listerine in my eyes, he sprayed Febreze in my eyes, he did horrible things to me and I still have nightmares about it.”

By the time the police arrived Tori had also been knocked out and her ex was trying to stab her neighbour in the head with his keys. Tori still struggles to sleep at night and lives with the daily fear that he will come after her again.

She believes these experiences left her