Without any organisation names given these abusers have already contacted past employers.

Childhood: lived in Aden (during war), Jamaica, Chethams Hospital School of Music, Kenya – played in lots of music festivals, o levels at 14, a levels at 16, wonderful school.

Came back to UK

B.Mus(Hons), LTCL, woodwind prize final year – flute, piano, bassoon

Jobs

Music Teacher

Computer Programmer, Systems Analyst

Conservation, tied top membership recruiter, centre manager, lots of volunteering all over the UK – butterfly counts, bird counts, breeding bird counts etc lots of counts

Sales

Started my own Landscape Photography Workshop business, holiday in Swaledale, Hebrides, Malham, Flamborough, and custom workshops.

this coincided with Dad having dementia, sold house, decided to really downsize into a house with wheels as could not afford another house nor do I know where I want to live, there are too many nice places.

Misc: performance poet, book published, longest relationship 9 years with a wonderful man, no children – just didn’t happen. LRPS

I have other interests but, again, as these abusers have been interfering in my life, hobbies and interests, I think I’ll keep them to myself for now.

I had to write 10+ pages of my life for the psychiatrist. The first thing he said after he had read it was ‘I get you’ said with a smile. I was so exhausted emotionally and physically I forgot to thank him.