Prologue - Everyone is Talking About This: the true story of a rape case

Everyone is Talking About This: the true story of a rape case audiobook

Trigger warnings: this podcast deals with rape, sexual assault, anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Most mothers will never have to find out what happens when their child becomes the victim of a horrendous crime. I, Lisa Lennox, never imagined that it would happen to my family, to my 17-year-old daughter. But one benign, ordinary summer's day, it did. And so began my family's immersion in the horror unleashed by such a crime, the trauma, the fear, the on-going nightmare of dealing with a police and criminal justice system which, if not completely broken, is certainly fatally fractured and struggling to cope.
Everyone is Talking About This is the true story of an ordinary family forced to face an extraordinary circumstance. I’ve tried to be honest and forthright about my desperate struggle to help my child get justice - and, on many occasions, to see the reason to go on living.
In the Prologue, you will meet my family -me, Lisa Lennox, my husband, Phil Canning, and our daughters Beatrice - Bea for short - and Iris, who is 15. You will hear about the struggles that have already plagued Bea's short life and the banal, mundane events that preceded Bea being callously raped by a complete stranger as she made the short, ten-minute walk from the nearby tube station to her home.

If I could erase that journey, expunge it, eradicate it from the face of the earth then of course I would do that. But I can’t. It happened and everything since then has been about living with the consequences of one man’s depraved actions.
Why should women and girls have to live like this? This is the question that really needs answering.

Please be aware that this podcast mentions sexual assault, rape, eating disorders and mental health issues. There is occasional strong language and some graphic detail.
If you have been affected by any of the issues in this podcast, here are some organisations you can contact in the UK:
Rape Crisis
0808 500 2222 - calls are free.
Or you can visit their website - https://247sexualabusesupport.org.uk/
Beat, the UK's eating disorder charity
08088010677 - calls are free.
Or visit their website - https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/
You can also speak to your GP or, if you are still at school, someone from your safeguarding team.
To my listeners - please do tell your friends about this audiobook podcast and encourage them to listen so that as many people as possible are aware of the reality victims of rape are up against on a daily basis here in the UK and across the world.
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