Johnson backing campaign by family of Joanna Simpson against proposed release of her killer Robert Brown
, said she understood her loved ones’ feeling of being “like sitting ducks”, ahead of Brown’s proposed release in November after serving half of a 24-year sentence.
“I remember [them] describing themselves as feeling like sitting ducks, powerless to do anything. And I knew that feeling from my own experience,” she said. “When I found out that taxi cab rapist Brown was acquitted of murder by a jury at Reading crown court in May 2011, having admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
“There are moments in life you can always recall, and identifying my daughter with my son after Brown bludgeoned her to death is one,” she said. “This was a life-changing tragedy, which altered my whole family’s life for ever.”
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