A victim of a Telford grooming gang has revealed her shock at discovering that one of her rapists is up for parole.
Kate Elysia was 18 years old when she moved out of her home in Shropshire in May 2007 and into a large house in Telford that had been converted into a dozen flats.
One month later on June 17, 2007, she was confronted by a man at her front door who forced his way in before going on to rape her.
The second year college student went to her local police station with the intention of filing a report, however she told the Times that ‘the police told me that if I reported it as rape they would have to arrest the man.
She added: ‘If I said it was consensual they would not have to arrest him. I said it was consensual they would not have to arrest him. So I had to say it was …