She is one of 13 victims. For her, the terror of what happened in the 1980s has been amplified in the last fortnight. Andrew Barlow - formerly Andrew Longmire - the man who raped her and a dozen others was making a new bid for freedom.
Her care-free life was shattered by Barlow one day in 1987 as she lay in bed in her terraced home. She was in her mid-20s. "It was in the morning, about 7.
30, 8am. I was asleep. I felt something sharp on my neck.
He woke me up. "He broke a window at the back..
. the pantry window. I hadn't heard that.
I had been told he had been watching me. He broke in, I did not hear him coming up the stairs. I felt the sharpness to my neck, and woke up to these eyes.
At first, he said 'have you got any money?'. There was some on the dressing table, so I said 'yes, over there, don't hit me'. READ MORE: Serial 'Coronation Street' rapist who was given 13 life sentences for horrific crimes loses bid for freedom "Then he did what he did, with the knife at my throat, and he put a pillow over my face.
It felt like he was in the house for hours. I just remember his eyes. He had a black scarf or a balaclava on and the old fashioned light khaki green jacket.
I stayed there for a few minutes. I didn't know what to do. What happened to me, I see daily.
" Since June 19 - when Barlow applied to be released - those memories, and the 37 years of fear she has endured, became terrifyingly vivid. But as reported by the Manchester Evening News , a parole board panel has turned do.
