Trapped in a cult

All these years on, I still don’t know I how I got out alive

You only get one chance to live your life but until you find yourself fighting just to stay alive, you don’t realise quite how precious that life is. Now, though, I remind myself how lucky I am every

Samantha Walker-Roberts’ nightmare began when she was groomed online aged 12 by a man posing as a teenager. After months of messaging, the predator, a 34-year-old former teacher, abused her in his spo

It’s been more than 25 years and yet one memory of my late sister Claire remains embalmed in my mind. It was a month before she jetted off to her backpacking adventure in Australia, in October 1999. C

Smiling at the shop assistant as she folded a stunning blue dress into a bag, I was aware that – with my wedding ring as a clue – she probably assumed I was a loving husband buying a present for my lu

Few could be worse parents than Fred and Rose West. Their daughter Heather, 16, was strangled, dismembered and buried under the patio. Fred’s eight-year-old stepdaughter Charmaine was found under the