TALE OF A TERROR VICTIM
AND HIS SUBSEQUENT TREATMENT BY THE POLICE AND MEDIA After showering, the other pictures were taken which are on my site link:
https://diabetic.ninja/llanelli/. The “bloody” pictures are pre-hospital, “bruised” pictures are afterwards. SO MUCH MORE THAN BEING PUMMELLED IN THE FACE
In the attack my glasses and my right hearing aid were both broken. When I went to the opticians for new glasses they detected there may be something in my eye between my eyeball and the socket and I was referred again to Gwangwili Hospital and they referred me to Bristol Eye Hospital the next morning. Lyn took me at 6am for a very early appoint- ment. A piece of debris was removed from my eye (possibly glass, they didn’t clarify) and they concluded that despite the haemorrhaging of my left eyeball my retina was OK and not detached and my sight would improve.
I now have a scar across my left eyelid where I was stitched in A&E and just one floater remains which won’t go away. My sight isn’t 100% in my left eye but it is certainly good enough maybe 99% or so. I also later had an ear infection which turned out to be the result of a small piece of my hearing aid which had got stuck in my ear and came out with the infec- tion. It all could have been much worse.
Not long before this event I had been put on anti-depressant medication for an unrelated issue and I approached the victim support service (who were useless and doing nothing because of “COVID”) so I approached my GP who just upped my anti depressants. I was referred to counselling but they called me once and never rang again (COVID was the excuse again) and to be honest I feel like nobody gives a s*&^. The police have been slow, slow, incompetent, slow and mostly useless. They did eventually arrest my attacker (bear in mind we know the company he works for and there’s little doubt that he “did it”) and in his statement he claimed it was self-defence and showed the police a tiny little scratch on his nose as “evidence” of this, sigh.
STILL NO FURTHER ON - BUT I’VE CARRIED ON
The attack happened on 22nd of December and as I write this it is now the 10th of June. The police have apparently “processed” it and sent it to the CPS, but getting any infor- mation out of them is nigh on impossible. Meanwhile the attacker is still employed by the company, even though they know what he did and I’ve seen him around town (I’ve won- dered about running him over!! But frankly I’d rather he got prison). I even ap-proached my local MP (I know him person- ally) through the formal channels and he contacted the police chief and got a standard: “We’re so busy, Covid, it takes time bla bla”, reply from them.
JULY 2021
I went back to taxi driving for two reasons. Firstly, the odds on it happening are quite long and I fig- ure the odds on it happening a second time are even longer. Second- ly, if I quit the perpetrator has sort of “won” in a way hasn’t he? Physically I guess I’m fine but I’ve had serious bouts of depression, nightmares most nights since the
attack and sleeping problems. I’m not as comfortable about late night driving now but I still do it. Thankfully Lyn gets me doing the long runs, airports and the like (one of the drivers who sadly died used to do them), being English I guess he also knows I’m pretty knowledgeable around England’s routes as I’ve also done courier work in the past etc. I do also enjoy doing it.
MEDIA MADNESS
I contacted the local press, the South Wales Guardian and Wales Online a number of times. The silence has been deaf- ening. I’ve also contacted major newspapers after I saw they were happy to feature a story about a girl in a local hit and run as a “major” article. Yet again silence. It all adds to the general feeling that nobody gives a s*&^. The South Wales Guardian is particularly bad, stories about a man getting three points for speeding or a cat being rescued from a tree seems to more their sort of thing it seems.
The reason I want this “all over the place” is because I want the perpetrator and his employer to get hit hard with bad press. Not only should he not be assaulting people, the company, which has a bad reputation, shouldn’t be having staff parties during lockdown. I would also emphasise that the employer’s attitude has been disgraceful - why wasn’t the perpetrator disciplined or fired - it’s beyond me!
On deadline for this issue, Dr Williams contacted PHTM to say that the police finally got in touch to inform him that the perpetrator has been formally charged with ABH and criminal damage and that the CPS are taking the matter to court.
” Let’s hope he is finally suitably punished!!
PHTM thanks Dr Williams for sharing this deeply troubling experience and wishes you all the best moving forward.
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