Kim's Story - Told in Her Own Words
Kimberley from the East Midlands is the daughter of Jeff - the founder of N.S.P.
"My problem with a stalker started one summers evening when I was stood in my fathers bedroom at the front of the house in a small mining village in the north of Nottingham.
I was doing my make up in the big wardrobe mirror when I heard a wolf whistle from outside, I turned to look and saw a man of about 18 to 20 years old scruffy looking with tatty trainers and his hood up and a scarf around his face looking up at me from across the road and making a gesture that he was going to cut my throat, I was stunned at first then I started to shake. I ran down the stairs as I knew the back door was wide open and I was the only one in the house.
I didn’t recognize him and I knew just about everyone in the village so I was scared. I jumped over the little wall at the back of our house and ran in to my next door neighbours; they rang my dad who was out working. He came home and calmed me down, he gave me some simple advice about how to keep myself safe as he was used to dealing with this sort of thing, but it wasn’t something we had expected in our small village we had always felt safe here as we grow up, now I was scared to go out alone, I was 14 years old at the time and I remember feeling why me? What had I done to him? but as a few days went by I started to forget it and carried on with life as normal, then I was stood on the front garden and I heard the whistle again, I just started to shake as I turned to see him stood on the corner of our road looking at me. It was a very distinctive wolf whistle with a long trailing end to it, I ran with my sister down the path and again in to our neighbours house. My dad returned home and rang the police taking it very seriously this time.
I could see that my dad was now also very concerned for my safety and he put things in place to keep me safe, I was chaperoned everywhere I went, I could not be left alone at all, and to be honest I found this a pain but because I was scared I put up with it. The next week I was at school and I saw him at the school gates, standing in the middle of the drive looking at me, my friends were with me and they saw him too. We ran in school but when I told the teachers they wouldn’t believe me, my dad had to ring up the next day and tell them what was going on, from that moment on at school I was kept in a class were my lunch was brought to me and I wasn’t aloud out at break times.
This I found very hard to cope with and I just wished that it would stop; my dad was now doing surveillance on the school from a flat that over looked the school gates but when ever he and his friend were watching nothing seemed to happen. My stalker was only showing himself about twice a week and at any time, there was no pattern to it. On one occasion the police and my dad watched the school but still he didn’t show, this went on for 6 weeks then suddenly it stopped, when 3 weeks had pasted I asked my dad if I could go out with my friends alone, I was scared but also fed up of being chaperoned around all the time, there is only so much time a 14 year old wants to be with adults.
My dad rang the p.c. that was dealing with it and he said no this could be the most dangerous time because if they want to do something to you they may stop the following of you so you drop your guard and then they can take their opportunity to get you. This made sense so I had to put up with it for many more weeks before my dad started to relax about it.
About a year on and one day when my dad was chatting to the village p.c. and he told him that they had caught a stalker and he had said that he had been paid to do it and that the first guy that had been paid to do it had stalked the wrong girl, this the police believed was me, and that’s why it had stopped for no reason. I still to this day freeze when I hear a wolf whistle, and I cannot imagine how people cope if they have not got the support that I had."
Kim
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