In September 2019, Paula Doyle was raped by her friend's husband, Aidan Kestell, while walking home after a family party. Doyle had been receiving harassing messages from Kestell that escalated over three years. Despite reporting them to the police, the messages continued, leading her to seek safety in Kestell's company that night. The aftermath left Doyle traumatized and changed, and she now advocates against sexual violence, addressing systemic failures in the justice process, including delays and the violation of privacy through court evidence.
I still don't want to go out and socialise. Today, he is serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for rape and Doyle has become a campaigning figure.
I'm getting better but I'm not the person I used to be. It felt like another violation, she says. He'd already taken my body, now he'd taken my soul.
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