At one point he abducted and imprisoned her, forcing his daughter to act like his wife and confining her to the car boot for a horrific five-week period.Ĭhance after chance to stop him was missed by social workers, the police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The hard facts are these: from the age of four, her father conducted a campaign of rape and abuse under the noses of the authorities.
Today Bobbi is waiving her anonymity to tell a story that is as heartbreaking as it is incredible. This recurring nightmare is sometimes so powerful it leaves Bobbi drenched in sweat and she has to sleep on towels – and no wonder. She needs the bathroom but has no idea when he’ll come to offer relief and the hours stretch ahead like a prison sentence. There’s no torch, no toys, no nothing and she is high on drugs. There is a quilt for warmth but she is bitterly cold. It’s pitch black and she can’t breathe: the musty air smothers her lungs like smoke.
She is locked in the boot of her father’s car. The nightmare is always the same for Bobbi Woodley. Bobbi Woodley, 34, says she has been left 'haunted' by what happened to her
