‘WE’VE BEEN GIVEN A LIFE SENTENCE – BUT THEY’LL WALK OUT AFTER HALF THEIR SENTENCES AND GET ON WITH THEIR LIVES’

THE young woman injured in a horrific kidnapping by her cruel boyfriend is now unable to speak, walk or feed herself, writes Tom Mack.

The devastated family of Angel Lynn said she had been a kind, lovely and beautiful girl before a kidnapping left her with catastrophic head injuries after a fall from a van.

The brain damage has left her in need of round-the-clock care, her aunt, Julie Hutchinson, said, after her boyfriend, Chay Bowskill, was jailed for kidnap, coercive and controlling behaviour and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

She said: “She’s alive but she’ll never live a life and she’ll be in constant pain. She was a very lovely person and so kind. When she entered a room you’d think the sunshine had walked in. I feel the fact she is alive is a technicality.”

Her other aunt, Jackie Chamberlain, said: “It’s been a terrible, terrible thing for the family.

“She’s in hospital and will have to have care for the rest of her life.

“She’s just catatonic – she can’t talk, feed or walk.

“She had her last rites read to her three times and in hospital she caught Covid and nearly died.

“She was the most beautiful girl and now she’s completely disabled. She will never get better.”

Angel, who is now 21 and is a patient at Loughborough Hospital, was 19 when Bowskill and his friend Rocco Sansome drove off with her in the back of a van they had bundled her into in September 2020.

As the van was travelling at up to 60mph along the A6 between Leicester and Loughborough, the side door opened and she fell out on to the road.

Last Wednesday, Bowskill, 20, of Empingham Drive, Syston, was locked up for seven-and-a-half years, while Sansome, 20, of Wanlip Lane, Birstall, was given 21 months for playing a part in the kidnap.

Jackie said: “We are disappointed that the sentence wasn’t longer.

“We have been given a life sentence because Angel’s injuries are so horrific. They will walk out after half their sentences are finished and get on with their lives.

“She’s never going to get married, have children and have a normal life.

“She’s in hospital and won’t be able to come home without a lot of changes being made to the family’s home.”

Jackie said Angel had two younger sisters who had also been traumatised by what happened.

She said: “Our family has had to