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PAEDO MOLESTER Abuse dad took our childhood but together we’ll stop him ruining our futures BOND

- By Michelle Rawlins

TWO sisters and a cousin were reunited for the first time in 20 years – to see the monster who sexually abused them finally jailed.

Evil dad and uncle Peter Wilson destroyed their childhoods. Now he has faced justice at last, aged 59.

Natasha Mina, Sophi Williamson and Chris Inch had suffered in silence, having no idea the others were being molested by Wilson.

But six weeks ago they held hands tightly at Leicester crown court as Wilson was jailed for 12 years.

The t hree now share an unbreakabl­e bond. Natasha, 27, Wilson’s biological daughter, said: “He is evil. He may be my father but he is not my dad. He violated me in the worst possible way.

“The only good thing to come out of this is being reunited with my big sister and cousin. As soon as we were allowed, we hugged. It was incredibly emotional. We all knew what each other had endured.”

Wilson’s stepdaught­er Sophi, 29, just six when he started abusing her, said: “It was the moment we had all only dared dream about. Peter destroyed our childhoods but we won’t let him ruin our futures.”

Wilson first molested Sophi when she was scared and got into the bed he was sharing with her sleeping mum, who was pregnant.

Innocence

Chef’s assistant Sophi said: “He put his arms around me and his hands began to wander. I just froze and Peter never said a word as he abused me.

“After he finished he took me, frightened and confused, back to my room. For two years he sexually assaulted me night after night.”

He never showed Sophi any affection and would be excessivel­y strict and frightenin­g. She said: “His idea of a treat was taking me to the pub for crisps while he got drunk.”

The abuse stopped when she told her mum, who immediatel­y called the police. Wilson was arrested but not prosecuted as the cops said it was Sophi’s word against his.

Sophi’s mum threw him out so he started abusing his biological daughter, Natasha.

The girls used to play together and Natasha did not know why he no longer lived with her stepsister’s mum.

Natasha was seven when she began visiting her father, who was living with her gran.

She said: “He became overly tactile and would insist I curl up with him on the couch and ask me to hold the newspaper in front of us.”

Every time she visited, Wilson, a welder, abused her and the attacks became worse and worse.

She said: “It makes me feel sick to the core. He was my dad. I loved him but he stole my innocence. I can never forgive him for that.”

He warned his young daughter not to say anything. He said: “Daddy will go to prison if you tell anyone and you don’t want that, do you?”

It was only when Natasha, a kickboxing instructor and an ambassador for Women In Sport, began senior school did she realise how wrong the abuse was and distanced herself from her dad.

She refused to lie on the couch and, apart from one time when she was 14, he never touched her again.

Natasha, of

Leicester, assumed no one would believe her.

To protect her mum’s feelings she did not report her abuse until she was 19. But, like Sophi, the police told her there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute. Unbeknown to Natasha and Sophi, their cousin Chris then fell , victim to the predator. Shy Chris was 15, living with gran in a static caravan and had just come out as gay when Wilson brutalised him.

Chris, 34, a delivery driver, from Burton, Staffs, said: “There wasn’t much room so I would sleep in the living

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