‘I need the 20-year-old me to be finally heard. She deserves that’ – Why rape survivor Hazel Behan is pursuing Portuguese police in European court
Mother-of-two suffers PTSD 21 years after ordeal she believes was inflicted by suspected Madeleine McCann kidnapper Christian Brueckner
Hazel Behan at home in Mullingar. Photo: Steve Humphreys
In the weeks after she reported being raped by a masked man who broke into her holiday apartment in Portugal in 2004, Hazel Behan noticed policemen were following her.
“Instead of actually trying to catch the man who attacked me, they were following me around. I confronted them to ask why. They told me it was to see if I was ‘a slut’,” she says.
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