It’s worth reliving my ordeal if it will help another victim

ACCUSER 2: Reliving what happened to her as an eight-year-old in the early 1980s has ‘cleared a fog’ in her mind, the second victim says.

She too was blindfolded when Weller allegedly abused her in a bathroom. ‘He got me to sit on a toilet seat,’ she said. ‘He was standing in front of me, and I remember feeling very uncomfortable about his presence.’

Like the first accuser the woman, now in her 40s and a mother, cannot be named for legal reasons and her family also trusted Weller. She said of her experience: ‘As an adult you can put it into context, but as a young child, you can’t. Over the years you put it away in the back of your mind, ‘‘oh that didn’t happen’’, and then when I heard of other abuse it confirmed to me what had happened.

‘If going public means someone else will ring the NSPCC or go to the police and are offered counselling, then it is worth me going through this again.’

She blasted police and the CPS for dropping the case against Weller in 2003. ‘They failed us,’ she said.