Paula Radcliffe has apologised for wishing good luck to a convicted rapist when he competes for the Netherlands at the Paris Olympics next week
Dutch beach volleyball player raped 12-year-old in 2016Paula Radcliffe has apologised for wishing “good luck” to a convicted rapist when he competes for the Netherlands at the Paris Olympics next week.
Radcliffe told Marr: “I know that he is married now and has settled down. I think it’s a tough thing to do to punish him twice and if he’s managed to successfully turn his life around after being sent to prison and to qualify and to be playing sport at the highest level, then I actually wish him the best of luck.”
Van de Velde, now 29, was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to raping the British girl. He had flown to England to meet her with full knowledge of her age, having met her on Facebook.
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