But far worse was to come when Kim was eleven: her dad took her and her brother to Kenya for a summer break whilst he lectured at the Polytechnic in Nairobi. They didn’t return and so began the years of abuse which turned her childhood upside down. To the outside world Bernard Beaumont was a figure of respectability but at home he terrorized his daughter in a case described by the Crown Prosecution Office as one of the worst they’ve handled.

The renowned microbiologist and histology expert would routinely rape her before school, leading her to have two traumatic abortions. I was so ill that Jonathan didn't think I was going to live much longer," she says. "I was drinking myself to death in effect. Out of desperation he went to the police. I was fuming.The reality was, I was so shy, I could barely look anyone in the eye, let alone flirt with them,' she said. Histology is the study of body tissues and their structure/function, while histopathology is the microscopic examination of tissue and mainly diseased issue.

It didn't take long before I heard that my dad's new venture had failed. I learned he didn't get on with his customers as he told them chips were bad for their health. If they came into the chippie more than once a week, he'd tell them they were eating too much of the wrong stuff.' Bernard Beaumont forced her to drink home brewed beer and wine laced with pure alcohol which he took from the laboratories where he worked, and dressed her up in adult lingerie before raping and abusing her for hours on end.

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As the hearing draws near Kim is untangling everything and asking questions that she’s buried for most of her life. Her Dad married a young Filipino bride with a daughter of her own who has taken to sending Kim abusive texts urging her to drop the case, but she isn’t deterred: “I’m trying to put myself in his shoes. I’m asking why has he done this; why did he do it to me and why did he do it at all. What made him do what he did?” Here is an example where we verified the current group before changing it: chown --from=:group3 :group4 FILE Kim said: 'I couldn't believe it when I was pregnant again less than a year later. This time he wanted to keep the baby and play happy families.

Scandal actor sues US school and bus company after his son and a friend ate a bag of sweets laced with THC that was left on school bus I didn't want anything to happen to him, because he's my dad. I'd lived with this all my life and I thought I just needed to pull myself together and get on with life, but obviously I couldn't. Also, it was my word against his.

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The following year, Kim again fell pregnant, but this time she said her father wanted to keep the baby and live as a family. Then I would have to get up, put my uniform on and go to school whilst he lay in bed sleeping it all off." Horrific DIY abortion Kim, pictured as a child, was forced to have two traumatising abortions from the age of 15 after her father abused her for years ( Focus Features)

Following her second termination, Kim returned to the UK. Her father took up a microbiologist post in Brunei and Kim thought her nightmare was over. Speaking about the decision to waive her right to anonymity, Kim says her biggest worry was people knowing about her alcohol addiction. "I'm such a private person and the alcohol has made me feel so ashamed. It wasn't the fact that he'd abused me – it was the alcohol, because I was still in denial. Now I can tell people – I'm a recovering alcoholic." The horrors endured by Hamas hostages: Barely any food, forced to sleep on plastic chairs, waiting in tunnels to be executed... Israelis reveal the hell they went through while held captive for seven weeks Kim Chown was starting to put her years of childhood abuse behind her after her father’s trial: he’d been found guilty and given a twenty year sentence. But then she discovers that he’s seeking to overturn the conviction and suddenly the closure she worked so hard to achieve is thrown up in the air.Beaumont was charged, and Kim was determined to get sober. She went into rehab in February 2017 and has not had a drop of alcohol since. "I wanted to get myself sober to be strong enough to be there to face him," she says. "In 2018, in April, I stood there and I faced the entire court and faced him. The day of the trial, I'll never forget standing at home, and I was so scared, I was petrified. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and I just thought, 'you know what Kim, you can do this. You are telling the truth'. That's what really gave me strength. Tory MPs warn James Cleverly that he MUST get a grip on Channel boats crisis and human rights rules are no longer 'fit for purpose' amid fears new Rwanda Treaty won't be ready until after Christmas