I was viciously gang raped as a student says Remain campaigner
ANTI-BREXIT campaigner Gina Miller has revealed she was gangraped as a student and it turned her into a terrified recluse.
The 53-year-old businesswoman was a student at the University of East London when the attack happened. She was walking to a Tube station at night when a group of men ‘brutally attacked her’. She crawled into a cab afterwards but refused to be taken to a hospital or police station.
‘I went into shock,’ she recalls. ‘It took me a long time to come to terms with what happened. I hid in my bedroom for weeks; I couldn’t even think about leaving the room, which was safe. I felt really lonely.’
In her forthcoming memoir, Rise: Life Lessons In Speaking Out, Standing
‘It was racist… but they weren’t white’
Tall & Leading The Way, Ms Miller reveals she felt ‘dirty, violated’ after the attack.
The Guyanese mother-of-three says: ‘It was racist, but not in the way you think – because they weren’t white.’
Years later, her Brexit vote campaign would lead to vile abuse and death threats against her and her children. And even now, nearly two years after successfully challenging the British Government’s decision to trigger Brexit without letting parliament have a say, Ms Miller and her family live under tight security. When she sees people approaching her carrying bottles of water, she says she panics that they are going to throw acid in her face.
Despite the constant threats, she stands by her efforts in court, saying: ‘My case was not whether [Brexit] was right or wrong. My point was the rule of law had to be properly observed.’
She puts her fighting spirit down to the fact that she has faced challenges including caring for her elder daughter Lucy-Ann. She was told by doctors when Lucy-Ann, now 30, was two that she had been badly braindamaged at birth. ‘Lucy-Ann awoke the lioness in me,’ she says. ‘I knew I had to be a fighter for her.’
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