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Does this look like desperate “women and children” to anyone?

This was a difficult piece to write. It was also necessary. I am one of the 8,711 victims warned that our attackers could be released early under Labour’s scheme. People should know who stands to benefit. Malcolm James, then in his late fifties, kidnapped me in 2019, shortly after my fourteenth birthday. He held me for several hours and repeatedly sexually assaulted me. I remained silent until Sarah Everard disappeared. She was abducted from a road that crosses the one from which I had been taken. I feared that the same men were responsible, and that my silence had allowed it to happen again. James was convicted of five sexual offences against a child. He is a repeat offender with previous convictions, including for violence. I already believed his eight year sentence was inadequate. Now he may be released earlier still. Andy Burnham has promised to review this scheme. He must exclude rapists, child sex offenders and repeat violent criminals. I refuse to have spent longer securing justice than James spends in prison.