What that sick man did was always at the back of my mind
ACCUSER 1: It is half a century since she was allegedly abused by Keith weller, then an emerging star at tottenham Hotspur.
But the memories refuse to fade and she breaks down in tears as she recalls her suffering. She says she was blindfolded and alone with weller in a London flat when he molested her. She was about 11.
the girl and her family had known weller for a number of years and trusted him to be alone with her.
the woman, now in her 60s, told the Mail: ’I can remember saying ‘‘no, I don’t want to do this. what are you doing?’’ I went to take the blindfold off and he shouted, in a panic, ‘‘don’t take it off, don’t take it off’’. He was obviously adjusting himself. I did take it off, and I just knew something had happened. I remember feeling very uncomfortable.
‘It was always at the back of my mind what he had done. You know when you have that feeling something was not right. what a sick man.’
the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, kept her ordeal secret for more than 30 years. ‘It was only when I was told that he had done it to someone else that it confirmed it for me.’
She was one of the women who made child abuse allegations against weller in 2002. ‘when it was thrown out it was bitterly disappointing,’ she said. ‘Now things have changed and hopefully we will get justice.’