EXCLUSIVE Exposed: The sexual assault epidemic in NHS hospitals with 33 rapes and assaults every WEEK. Here, women tell their harrowing stories..
. By Adele Waters For The Daily Mail Published: 12:09 EDT, 15 July 2024 | Updated: 12:32 EDT, 15 July 2024 e-mail 31 shares 36 View comments Pauline Brewer, 77, was ill. So ill she'd been admitted to hospital for urgent investigations after developing chest pain.
She'd been waiting two days for an angiogram — a type of heart scan — and, feeling tired and uncomfortable in the stuffy women's ward, decided to freshen up. Pauline, a retired administrator from Birmingham , slowly made her way to the washroom for a shower. As she recalls: 'I locked the door, took off my clothes and was about to step into the shower when there was a thud at the door.
'I thought perhaps someone had knocked, realised that it was occupied and gone away — but seconds later a man burst through the door. He'd broken the lock and was lunging towards me. Sarah Johnson, 41, an education consultant from Meopham, Kent, has bravely told her story of being sexually assaulted by physiotherapist Purnoor Bawa, who was jailed last month 'I was horrified.
I'm less than 5ft tall and it felt like he was towering over me. He was much younger than me — I'd say in his early 30s — and came straight at me, saying something very sexual about what he wanted to do to me. 'It all happened so fast, but as he reached forward to grab me, I put my hands up to protect myself.
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