"After making the hard decision to report a celebrity who she said sexually assaulted her, Jenny Evans discovered confidential details printed word for word in a national newspaper. Then only 19, she racked her brain - could a friend have betrayed her? Was she being spied on? Without knowing it, Jenny found herself in the middle of a corruption scandal that would eventually bring down some of the most powerful players in the UK press and police."
"He put his hand to my chest and just pushed me so that I would lose my footing. And then he and his friend pounced, and then there was a sexual assault," she said. When the men got bored with her, the famous man's friend called her a taxi. Jenny was retching and shaking when the taxi pulled up and the driver, named Ken, kept saying to me "I think you've been raped. Let me take you to a police station"."
Jenny Evans, from Abergavenny, experienced a sexual assault at 18 while in London and initially felt too shocked and scared to report it. Confidential details of her report later appeared verbatim in a national newspaper, prompting fear that friends or others had betrayed or spied on her. The leak placed her at the center of a wider corruption scandal that ultimately implicated powerful figures in the UK press and police. Rather than withdraw, Jenny channelled her anger into training as a journalist with the aim of uncovering how the betrayal and leaks occurred.
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