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| Charlie Pearce: Rapist who bludgeoned victim with paving slab and left her for dead sentenced to 11 years in prison | Charlie Pearce: Rapist who bludgeoned victim with paving slab and left her for dead sentenced to 11 years in prison |
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| Convicted rapist Charlie Pearce, who bludgeoned a woman with a paving slab and left her for dead in Leicester, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. | Convicted rapist Charlie Pearce, who bludgeoned a woman with a paving slab and left her for dead in Leicester, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. |
| In an emotional statement read out at the Old Bailey before sentencing, Pearce’s victim said she was left “mentally and physically scarred” by the incident. | |
| “I do not remember screaming when I was assaulted though I am aware that screams were reported to the police by various people that night. | |
| “My screams did not stop my attacker from causing me further harm and nor did they help me be found so I could receive medical care I needed. | |
| “Knowing that my screams did not change anything for me that night continues to trouble me.” | |
| She described how her life and ambitions had been “put on hold by Charlie Pearce’s criminal actions”. | |
| “The six months which have now passed since I was discharged from hospital amounts to an ongoing period of time that can never be gotten back, time which has been taken from me and from how I live my life, without my permission and against my wishes. | |
| “I am reminded on a daily basis – and sometimes multiple times a day – of the extensive trauma my body has endured and my mind cannot remember happening to me.” | |
| "The woman said she still suffers from jaw pain, loss of hearing in her right ear and has bald patches. | |
| They were all “physical reminders of the damage that was done to me by a complete stranger when I was walking home,” she said. | |
| She went on: “I am mentally scarred as well as physically scarred. I have had thoughts about hurting myself and ending my life because I feel that I cannot live with the knowledge I have that what happened to me has happened to me.” | |
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