In an attempt to get over the intense grief at the loss of my mother, I decided to take a short break to Bath. I had never been there before, and thought the relaxed and civilized atmosphere of the Georgian spa town would be just the ticket. It certainly did help, or at least for the first couple of days it did. Especially as I hardly saw a police officer, or a security guard, so the plaguing thoughts of the bent psychopaths were at rest, and I could focus on relaxing and processing my mother’s death and my new life without her, the only person in my entire life who will ever love me.

However, on the day before I left, I began the morning sitting in a Starbucks cafe. As I sat drinking my tea, I looked up and noticed a male and female PCSO were sitting opposite me. When he glanced up at me, a look of sheer fright took hold of his face. I was unperturbed. Most likely it was nothing to do with the torture of the last 15 years. Surely now, the pigs aren’t still pointing me out even to PCSO’s in places I have never visited before? So I didn’t give it a further moments thought. Later, I was sitting in another cafe watching the world go by, when a different male PCSO and a female walked past. The PCSO looked at me and appeared to say something to his female colleague, who then looked at me. Again, I gave it little thought, although this time it perturbed me a little more.

Then late in the afternoon, again I was sitting outside a cafe, facing a road. A police car stopped at the traffic lights so it was directly in front of me. The male driver glanced at me and immediately gave a look of recognition and then clearly turned to his female colleague in the next seat, said something to her while giving an evil smirk, and then both looked at me. I almost jumped out of my seat and cried out ‘what the fuck??’. Both of the officers then looked away, the female down at something she appeared to be reading and the psychopathic male driver looked to his right until the lights turned green and they drove off.

The Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police is Sarah Crew.

Under the Criminal Justice Act of 1988, a public official such as a police officer who commits the offence of psychological torture, is liable to a life term custodial prison sentence.