A British woman is speaking out after her husband was sentenced to 15 years behind bars for a series of horrific domestic violence incidents that put her in a terrifying situation.
"I woke to a stranger on top of me raping me and my husband in the room watching over," the woman, identified as "Lucy," told ITV. "The stranger got up and ran off quite quickly, and then I barricaded myself in my children's room and called my father ... and called the police."
She said despite her husband being convicted, her journey is far from over, PEOPLE reported. "I spend every day of my life in fear and worry. But more than that, I feel upset that these men are walking free," she said, adding that she's now looking for the men her husband invited to rape her as she lay unconscious just a few feet away from her sleeping children.
Her husband confessed to his crimes in a series of jail phone calls that were recorded. The number of men who may have sexually assaulted her is unclear, said Lucy, who noted that her husband was drugging her "two to three times a week for a year" and that "evidence from emails and so forth shows that it was going on for many many years prior."
So, she added, there "could be hundreds" of men. "Everyday I walk past people and wonder; if someone looks at me for too long, I'm concerned [that] maybe that's one of them," Lucy said. Shortly after her husband's arrest, Lucy learned from police that he had been drugging her with car cleaning fluid.
"I would wake up and things would hurt in my body and I wondered why I became so unwell for years. I look back at photos [and] I don't even recognize myself," Lucy said.
Soon, she found herself so sick that she even began wetting the bed. "I wouldn't be able to sit up and sip water," she recalled, adding that one night she said to her husband: "I think I'm going to die tonight." She asked him to watch over her as she slept that evening.
In a call from prison, Lucy said he later admitted that he called a man over to rape her that night. Lucy said she's glad her husband is in prison for his crimes, but questions why police did not do more to try and track down any of the men her husband invited into their home to rape her while she lay unconscious.
She said he was disappointed police did not fingerprint her bed frame back in 2021 despite "being aware that a stranger had been in my home that night." She said she kept the bed frame for years, even moving to a new home with it. Police later identified DNA from multiple individuals, some of which remain unmatched profiles.
In a statement, the police said: "One man has received a significant prison sentence for the crimes he committed against this victim, but our enquiries are continuing and we remain committed to doing all we can to identify any other perpetrators who carried out offences against her."
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