SI/CZ/119/2003 “Rapes, Perjury and
Conspiracy to Pervert” Tape A
This interview was both audio and video-taped in the custody suite, I do
not know if anyone was remote viewing.
DS Hooks and DC Davies and Yolande Lindridge
DS “I am Detective Sergeant Graham Hooks...”
YL
“Sorry can I just go through this piece of paper, I just want to be certain that I know what we are doing….”
DS
“Well, No, could we do that at the end please, we’ll go through that with you at the end, its irrelevant
about what I want to speak to you about, its just regarding how you get a copy of the tape, we’ll go through that with
you at the end…”
YL
“But it talks about not being charged with an offence, prosecuted or cautioned?”
DS
“Right I have just got to explain, give me that back to me (he takes the form away from YL) thank you –
I’ll do that at the end – right I am Detective Sergeant Graham Hooks, I am from Maidstone Police Station, I work
in a department called CID. Part of my job is to interview people … at
the end of the day to get information from you in relation to a crime report which you asked to be reported to the police. Do you understand that? As I said to
you before on the tape, you are not under arrest, you can leave this police station at any time you wish, the only reason
this interview is being conducted in the custody area so that we can tape record what you are saying to us, do you understand?”
YL
“I am just concerned about what is on that piece of paper..”
DS
“I’ll leave that piece of paper to the end, that piece of paper explains to you how you can get a copy
of these tapes, you can reach for future reference, there is nothing to do, and I would like to conduct the interview first
and talk about the administration after the interview’s been completed, do you understand that?
YL
DS “Are
you with me?”
DC “I
am Detective Constable Davies
YL “
Can I write down your names?”
DS
“Hooks”
DC
“Davies”
DS “Could
I have your name please?”
YL
“Yolande Lindridge”
DS “And
your date of birth please, Yolande?”
YL
“5.2.52”
DS
“Thank you. Before putting these (video) tapes in the machine my
colleague will seal both of the tapes , one is a red one and one is a white one. The
reason why they are both different colours is that one is called a Master Tape, which is the red one. At the end of this interview,
this tape will be sealed , with a seal all the way round the tape, and will be put away in a safe place in the police station
and can only be opened in exceptional circumstances, for example, in the presence of a solicitor, we can’t open them. The other one, the white copy, this seal will be placed round but that will not be
sealed, we can listen to that tape so that we can make a written record of the interview, do you understand? That notice I have taken off of you, you can get back at the end of the interview and it will explain what
happens to the tapes. Right I have got a crime report here and the crime reference
number is SI/CZ/119/03; its listed here as a crime…um …details have
been faxed over from Bexley (DC Hallett of Bexleyheath Police Station 10.1.2003) in the Metropolitan Police area now
basically what it says .. er.. You were you married to Nigel Peck for 2 years…. as a result of crime you went to Maidstone Court in 1980 first of all to obtain an
Injunction, but all you got was a non-molestation order, the doctor would not prepare a medical report, shortly after the
Court Hearing, he told you, he started stalking courting couples, he was like a peeping Tom watching them, he had a shot-gun
with him, he had beaten and raped a woman, he said he would shoot and rape yourself if he told anyone. Now what can you tell us about that allegation?”
YL
“Well there were 2 Injunctions, actually that succeeded at that time in 1980 and there is medical evidence in
1982 to say that he breached both of those injunctions. “
DS
“So there are 2 Injunctions against your ex-husband, yes?”
YL
“Yes?”
DS
“ ….. your ex-husband, right? Yep”
YL
“Earlier that year we had separated, but we were living in the same house, and it was while we were separated
that he attacked me, and raped me.”
DS
“Now that is not what you just said to the police in Bexley (Bexleyheath
2 months earlier)?”
YL
“I was told to report both rapes to the police in Bexleyheath and it was DC Hallett”
DS
“Yes”
YL
“and I went to Bexleyheath Police Station on 10th January and I spoke to him and he rang through to
Kent Police and he told me that the only 2 crimes that I could report in the Police Station were 2 rapes and that I could
not report the perjury or the conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.”
DS
“Right. So that we don’t get too confused in this, right, you are saying that you have been raped?”
YL
“Yes”
DS
“By your ex-partner?”
YL
“Husband”
DS
“Husband. And he also allegedly raped another lady after beating
her up?
My impression of this crime report …. this crime report does not
mention about you being raped - I’ll
deal with this first…..what can you tell me about what he said about being like a Peeping Tom, with a shot-gun and he
beat and raped a woman, what can you tell me about that?”
YL
“Well, I think I need to go back to raping me first to get back to where that is because of the 2 rapes I was
told I was allowed by the constable to report, I need to explain how he got from the May when I was attacked, and had GBH
injuries…….”
DS
“That was 1980?”
YL
“Yuh, to the August”
DS
“Ok, May 1980, what can you tell me about that?
YL
“I had been seeing my solicitor, Whitehead Monckton, Lawrence Brooks, since September 1979 because I wanted protection
for myself and what he told me that I had to do, because most of the injuries I was getting were head injuries, was to keep
a diary, and it wasn’t only me he was being violent too, I had a dog and he had a dog too, and I was told to keep a
diary so that we could go to court, in the end, by that time we were separated in the February, I was in the matrimonial bedroom,
in the matrimonial bedroom and in the matrimonial bed and he was in another room, and I had gone to bed that night, I was
lying towards the window, shall I draw a picture?”
DS
“Yes”, do it on another page because I am probably going to have to take that page
YL
“This is like my house, upstairs, front bedroom, window, this is a chest of drawers, that’s the window,
the bedroom and the door, and the bed is here.
There is like a radiator here, there under the window, this is quite close and I was lying here, facing the window,
on a wooden pine bed that he had made – it had got slats underneath it, and he came in, tipped it up and threw me into
this confined space, and I sustained injuries – my medical records show that I hurt my ribs and my back, and whilst
I had lost consciousness, which my medical records show, and whilst I was down there that’s when I was trapped down
there, he did what I call homosexual rape, he saw my GP the next day”
DS
“Homosexual rape, can you expand on that?”
YL
“Through the back passage” My medical records show that
I had concussion – my medical records show that my injuries lasted over a year, I think that is GBH isn’t it? I have these injuries in my medical records”
DS
“You say medical records, did you go to a Hospital or a GP?”
YL
“GP, Dr Eric Brown”
DS
“And what practice was he from?”
YL
“King Street”
DS
“King Street in Maidstone?”
YL
“Yes”
DS
“That was in 1980? Did you report that to the police at the time?”
YL
“No”
DS
“Any reason why not?”
YL
(crying) “He told me that if I told anyone about what he was like,
and what he did, he would always have made sure that no one would ever believe me, and that was what he always said, but when
he was violent it was to control me / to control my behaviour or because he was frustrated.
He had the ability that I never knew when the violence would start, or what would set it off, it would just happen,
he would hit me from behind – he hit my head into the door frame. Somebody
could come to the door, the front door and he could change, he could just laugh and joke at the front door with somebody and
then shut the door and then 30 seconds later he would start again, you know”
DS
“And you say about the violence, was there any warning about the violence/ hurting you?”
YL
“No, there was never any warning”
DS
“How many times did he beat you or hurt you?
YL
(crying) “A lot, right from when we got married”
DS
“When were you married?”
YL
“15 July 1978; he told me that he married me for my money, and my
bridesmaid last year reminded me that he married me for money. An on our honeymoon
I was so badly injured that I could not walk, we were in Tenerife, I couldn’t walk”
DS
“Were any of these incidents reported to the police?”
YL
“No, I was ashamed”
DS
“Did you see a doctor to receive treatment for your injuries?”
YL
“The first time I went to the doctor was in Tenerife. But the first
time - I felt ashamed, I - it was after the rape..”
DS
“So until then when he was beating you, you had not been to the doctor with any injuries?”
YL
“No”
DS
“Did you speak to anybody about your injuries?”
YL
“I went to see my solicitor, I went to see him when I had been married 14 months but that was embarrassing because
my solicitor had been someone I had previously been involved with, a previous boyfriend of mine back in Hastings, he was a
Partner at Whitehead Monckton, and I had been raped before – and that was after I had met Laurie. You know - I suppose you understand about rape?
It makes you feel worthless. (Crying) and it took me such a long time
to get over the first one, and you feel like you are the nuisance because so much went wrong after the first rape. I got raped when I was 21. There is a record of the rape down
at Portsmouth Police Station. I had such low self-esteem because of it and I
tried so hard to put my life right after that – and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t seem to put it
right, and I felt such a nuisance, and, when my mother was dying – this was in 1977, I was raped first in 1973, April
1973, and then my mother was dying, and I was working as a Lecturer at that time, and I went home to Hastings to nurse my
mother, and I took her home to die, in her last few weeks of her life I met my husband-to-be”
DS
“We’ll stay with this first one, Yolande, and then we will go back to that in a second. You say you went to see your solicitor, but you did not go to see your doctor when he was assaulting you,
but you went to see a solicitor who was your ex-boyfriend; did he see any injuries? Did he see injuries?”
YL
“No”
DS
“Did anyone see your injuries – social worker, doctor…”
YL
“A doctor saw my injuries, yes”
DS
“Which doctor?”
YL
“Dr Eric Brown”. Its on my medical records, but until the
May”
DS
“You said you were assaulted shortly after your marriage, since 1978, so from 1978 to 1980 he was beating you
periodically. Did anyone see your injuries from 1978 to 1980?”
YL
“Um, I don’t know”
DC
“Did you tell any friends or anyone in your family, or anything like that?”
YL
“Well, I actually sent out like questionnaires before Christmas to see what people remembered because there were
certainly knew things at the time, but most of them have forgotten – but there are people that remember”
DC
“Did you ever directly tell anybody like a close friend or anything like that
- even including the rape?”
YL
“I don’t know, I can’t remember. When I saw Kyla Warrell
(DC Michaela Warrell of Maidstone CID) 2 years ago, and you will have a record of this, and
I think you need to understand this, when I saw Kyla Warrell 2 years ago what had just happened to me triggered the
trauma, right? It triggered the trauma from before, and if you speak to Kyla
she will have a record of this, I was talking about a ‘memory blockage’ – a ‘memory blockage’
that was too painful for me to deal with – and she will confirm that - and that ‘memory blockage’ took 22
months for me to safely release it all, and I finally released the whole lot in December and that was the last, last bit.
Because, although I was only married - I lived with him for just over 2 years. Whatever
happened to me in that time, medically certified but medical records will show – that when this trauma arose 2 years
ago the pain with it that had been buried took 22 months for it all to come out and for me to cope with, and to release it
and let it go – and that is a medical fact. You know? You cannot deny that whatever happened to me at the hands of that person was so horrific as to the trauma
to take 22 months. Now I don’t know, you wouldn’t know, a trauma
expert would know the scale of trauma that would take 22 months”
DS
“You should have got medical evidence for this; you should have
got psychiatrically examined to say that this is like a ‘blockage’. You
said you have medical evidence to prove this, what medical evidence is that?”
YL
“It was a social worker came with me, Pat, Patricia Shanahan, and we went to the Bearsted Medical Practice, it
was on 13th March 2001”
DS
“Mrs Shanahan?”
YL
“Yes”
DS
“The Bearsted ..”
YL
“Medical Practice, I was seen by Dr Godsmark, and we spent an hour with him”
DS
“Dr Gods?”
YL
“Dr Godsmark”
DS
“What was the conclusion of his examination?”
YL
“I was traumatised; I was traumatised in a way that wasn’t
normal in relation to what had happened to me and that is because what had happened with me in Bermuda, although I controlled
the situation, it had brought back the 2 worst times of my life – the first rape in 1973 and what had happened in 1980. Now the 1973 rape came back immediately, if you see my medical records from Dr Godsmark
and speak to Pat Shanahan, they will tell you that that first rape came back as if it were yesterday – right? That was the first time in like 28 years or whatever it was, that it had come back as if it were yesterday; it had never come back in that intervening time.
And I thought, now why has this come back? Because I know a lot about
trauma / stress, I teach stress, I teach trauma and I thought that there must be something that we did not fix at that time. And then I learned, and what I learned, and this is relevant, what I learned was that
I did not share what had happened to me when I was first raped;
I went back to my flat that I was sharing with 4 girls. I was sharing
a room with one girl, Angie, and I rang her 2 years ago and I said “Angie, did I ever tell you what happened to me,
back in 1973 when I ended up in hospital?” “No”, she said “you
wouldn’t tell any of us, you wouldn’t tell anybody what happened to you.
We just knew that you were normal one minute, and very unhappy and you had overdosed the next day, and why never knew
why you overdosed and why you became so unhappy.”
DS
“Who is Angie?”
YL
“Angie Frost. She was Angie Doel when she was my flat-mate in 1973.”
DS
“Angie Doel?”
YL
“D – O - E – L”
DS
“Where does she live?”
YL
“She lives in the West Country, near Swindon. She is an IT Consultant”
DS
“Can I have her phone number also?”
YL
“Yes, you can have her phone number”. It was fate, you
know once I realised that I had not told anybody – and I thought about, I thought well I didn’t, I was very ashamed
of being raped when I was 21 – and I blamed myself because- because I thought how stupid I was to accept a lift from
somebody that I should not have accepted a lift from. I felt so ashamed, I had
been in a car crash and I had no car and I went to see a garage owner I knew and there was a man that came in to visit him
that was a friend….”
DS
“Is this another incident?”
YL
“No, this is the first rape”
DS
“No, we’re straying off, lets go back to the rape in May, just for the minute, I want to go back to the
first one”
YL
“I think you need to understand the first one, to understand …”
DS
“Yes, Yolande, but I started this with questioning you about when you were
raped by your partner, you will have an opportunity to go back and tell me about the first one, I wanted to go back
to finish this one so we don’t get too confused. Right, he’s pushed
you off the bed against the wall into a confined space, and that’s when you say he homosexually raped you, in the back
passage. Right, you said you went to see a doctor, did you tell the doctor what
had happened?”
YL
“Sorry, I did mean to tell you something….”
DS
“We can’t keep.. ”
YL
“You need to understand …”
DS
“Yes, but we can’t keep thrashing around, I’m getting totally confused, I want to deal with one thing
first, you will have the opportunity to tell me anything you want about the first one.
When you went to see the doctor did you tell him that you had been raped?”
YL
“No”
DS
“Why did you go to the doctor?”
YL
“Because of my injuries”
DS
“Right, so he examined you.”
YL
“Yes, I had concussion and the rest of my injuries.”
DS
“Yolanda, what I am trying to get through to you is, this a very serious allegation that you are making, saying
that someone has raped you whether it is homosexually or otherwise, all I am trying to do is to see if there is any evidence
to support this, so, can you remember if the doctor examined you?”
YL
(Crying) “He examined me for the first rape. I never ever told anyone ever all the details of my first rape, except my husband. That’s what I did. I had to find the words I had to tell him what had happened to me, we were getting married.
He was living in Romney Marsh and I was living in Sidcup, I was working as a Lecturer in Industrial Management. And, what I wanted to do, prior to getting married, I wanted to be totally honest
about my past, and because of the first rape I still had low self-esteem, I had problems valuing myself and feeling that I
had any value, and I wanted to wipe the slate clean, so that my husband-to-be would know what sort of person he was marrying
ie I had been raped, so I wrote to him, and I wrote to him. And he is the only
person I ever told this. I wrote to him prior to getting married and I told him everything about that first rape, about all my emotions, my feelings, how I felt when
it was happening, when I thought I was going to die, and I thought that I was going to ??? , I told him everything, the emotions when it happened”
DS
“We’ll have a break, just calm down for a second, just relax for a minute, Yolanda, just compose yourself; relax a little bit, I am just trying to get to the bottom of this and get some evidence.
You keep going back and forward, we haven’t finished with the rape in May, and what I want to know, the first rape which
we will call Rape No 1 happened in April 1973. Is that correct?”
YL
“Yes”
DS
“ I don’t want you to think about that rape, we’ll come back to it in a second. The second rape which
you are talking about was May 1980, I still haven’t finished that one.
YL
“OK”
DS
“Right, did the doctor examine you? Did you confide in the doctor? Right when was the first time that you had mentioned that you had been raped on that
day to anyone?”
YL
“I don’t know”
DS
“Right so there is no-one as far as you know that you confided to or can give us any evidence that will assist
the police investigation from your rape in 1980.”
YL
“No, I have got a witness statement from somebody who remembered how terrified I was of him.”
DS
“Was that because of the physical violence or was it because of the rape?”
YL
“When we were together and when he stalked me after”
DS
“Regarding the rape?”
YL
“I don’t know, I have been trying to find my brother, my brother might know”
DS
“Did you tell your brother?”
YL
“I can’t remember.”
DS
“Now you said that you were told to keep a diary for all the things that happened to you. Have you still got that diary?”
YL
“I looked for it, but what happened was after he stalked me for 2 years, I was referred for treatment for Chronic
Anxiety. And the doctor I saw, encouraged me to draw a line under the past, and
bury it, and get rid of everything. So although I have kept everything else,
like other things, I got rid of letters and most things, apart from certain practical things, but everything else in my life,
even before that, I have still got, everything, I always keep everything. I did
what the doctor told me in 1982, and I drew a line under it, and moved forward with my life.”
DS
“So, when was the first time you reported this rape in 1980, when did you first speak about it, to whom did you
speak about it?”
YL
“ I don’t know but I definitely spoke to John Pinchof about it, he treated me for Chronic Anxiety.”
DS
“John, who?”
YL
“Pinchof”
DS
“And where’s he from?”
YL
“Well, he was at the Maidstone Hospital, as a Psychologist, and I have known him all these years, and I thought
that he was a family friend, and he worked at the Somerfield (BMI Somerfield Hospital in Maidstone), and I understand that
he has now moved to Bristol.”
DS
“Where did you actually see him?”
YL
“It was at Maidstone Hospital”
DS
“You described to him about being raped in 1980?”
YL
“He knew, he knew, he knew how I felt”
DS
“Can you remember roughly the time you spoke to John Pinshof?”
YL
“Yes, the medical records I have managed to reconstruct, and it was the latter part of 1982.”
DS
“You think that was the first time you spoke about your second rape, as I call it?”
YL
“Yuh”
DS
“Right is there anything else you can add in relation to that rape of 1980? Just that particular incident?”
YL
“I didn’t do what I did before, I didn’t overdose, and no matter… – and although I got
the injunction at that time when we went to court, and the one thing that always sticks in mind when we were in court was,
he admitted to a reflex action of vomiting whenever I …when I was giving him affection, but he denied making ‘gurgling
sounds’. That always stuck in my mind. You see my ex-mother-in-law – she’s dead now, she contacted me before she died ; she told me after I got married that …she introduced the subject to me of my husband’s sexuality,
by asking me if I knew that our Best Man, Mark was ‘gay’? And, I didn’t?
What I did – someone else who was bi-sexual told me that they recognised the sort of conflict in my husband,
and I tried to research it, I found Gay Lines and things around, and I rang them to try and understand the violence. I was somewhat naïve, I thought that just by loving him the violence would make it
better, but I didn’t understand, and I spoke to Gay Lines and I spoke a lot to Samaritans. But I didn’t do what I did after the first rape. After
the first rape, and Angie will tell you this, I took an overdose.”
DS
“Was your husband, gay?”
YL
“Pardon?”
DS
“Was your husband, gay?”
YL
“Yes”
DS
“How did you know he was gay?”
YL
“His mother told me, and I knew once she had told me and somebody else had told me I recognised it, and I had
spoken to gay lines because I was trying to understand what was triggering the sexuality conflict that he had. I thought that if I could understand, I could help. But I couldn’t, because I could never…
and he always said …….he has this external image, this Mr Perfect image and it was always about he has to look
perfect, and he had a dog and when he walked up the road with the dog in front of all our neighbours, it was always on a lead,
and people used to remark about how well-behaved the dog was; what they had never
seen was how he – the violence, the extreme violence that went into making that dog behave, and he also used that on
me, it was about controlling me, my behaviour, and how I was supposed to behave in public, and he was the person who decided
what was right and what was wrong behaviour and it was him that decided on the level of punishment. He never showed any remorse for what he did. He considered
that what he was doing was right. I used to ring my mother-in-law because what
he did, she was disabled with Multiple Sclerosis and he …, what I hadn’t realised was when I met him I met his
parents, he had this very extreme reaction ie he worshipped his father and was extremely rude and insulting and horrible to
his mother who was disabled with this Multiple Sclerosis, and had this stair-lift that went up the stairs and things because
she could not get herself around, and he was always extremely rude to her, and what I learnt was that whatever negative feelings
he had towards her, he projected onto me when he was with me, once we were married.
I mean there was one incident before we got married, and I just put it down to pre-Wedding nerves – now my brother
would know about that.
DS
“Is there anything you wish to add at this stage?”
YL
“Not with regards to that, no”
DS
“When he raped you when he tipped you out of bed, had you actually gone to bed?”
YL
“Yes”
DS
“What did you have on? Did you pyjamas, nightshirt – nothing
on?”
YL
“I didn’t wear pyjamas.”
DS
“You are shaking your head, you mean you cannot remember?”
YL
“I wouldn’t know what I was wearing?”
DS
“OK”
YL
“I’m pretty sure – in fact I know I wouldn’t have been naked.
I must have been wearing a nightdress.”
DS
“What time of day was it?”
YL
“In the evening”
DS
“Right, before he came into your room, where was he?”
YL
“Another part of the house?”
DS
“In your bed, were you sleeping?”
YL
“I don’t think so.”
DS
“Were the lights on?” He tipped you out of bed, you were in
a confined space, what did he do then?”
YL
“I told you what he did”
DS
“Did he remove your nightshirt? Did he hold you? Did he push you? Did he hit you? What exactly did he do?”
YL
“I don’t think he removed it, it happened very quickly – tipping me out of the bed and the concussion
was to render me powerlessness. Yes?”
DS
“Yes”
YL
“He then did what he wanted. He liked sex, he wanted sex, his approach
to sex was in a way that was de-grading and in-humane.”
DS
“What did he do?”
YL
“There was no touching, no holding.”
DS
“Had he had sex like this before with you?”
YL
“Before we separated, and I don’t like it. But that was what
he wanted”
DS
“I am trying not to distress you, but what I what I have to understand is if you know what rape is? It is when someone has sexual intercourse with you against your will, when you don’t want to? Are you saying to me that you didn’t want to have sex with him at that stage?”
YL
(Crying) “No I didn’t, I had separated from him. I had bought
us a house, you know, I had given him a share of everything – it was a 4-bedroomed detached house, I bought it –
he didn’t put anything in – he had no money – it was all in Trust Funds – he didn’t touch any
of this money. I gave everything I had ever worked for and my parents had ever
worked for. I bought us a house. I put it in joint names, and he took out a Life Policy on me.
He started a job as a Financial Adviser at the same time, he wanted to move to Maidstone when we got married, so we
moved to Maidstone and he started a new job as a Financial Adviser, as we got married, a couple of weeks before we got married
he took out a Life Policy on me.”
DS
“Right, while he was raping you did he say anything?”
YL
“I can’t remember him saying anything.”
DS
“Are you saying he didn’t?”
YL
“I don’t remember, I had concussion.”
DS
“Right, is there any more that you can add to the rape that happened in 1980?”
DC
“Are you aware if he had been drinking that night, or was it just down to his nature?”
YL
“The thing is that is wasn’t alcohol, there was never any warning, that is why it was always so frightening. When we were out in public with his insurance colleagues, he always --- something
happened this week - it was amazing what happened this week, because he always persuaded me that everyone saw him as “Upper
Class” , “public school”, “perfect”, “pillar of society”, always looked ‘perfect’,
he went out wearing white shirts, suits, ties, his car always looked immaculate, his dog always looked immaculate, and he
was a real man’s man – he made men laugh, but when you were in public with him, women were very very attracted
to him, he was extremely good-looking, and that must have made things worse for him because of his sexual conflicts that women
were attracted to him, and he hated them, but when you were in social situations he was always, it wasn’t just at me,
he was always doing in subtle ways where he was manipulating people, poking fun at every female. When he did it to me – I went into the Nat West Bank at Bearsted to get something done by one of
them, a manager, and we had a very bizarre conversation because she was a severe victim of domestic violence, and for some
reason I said to her, her name is Linda Kirby, I said have you ever come across Nigel Peck?
And, she then told me that she had, and that about a year ago he had terrified her, she was worried about the interest
he was showing in her teenage son…”
DC
“We’ll explore that a little bit later, my sergeant said, is there anything in relation to that 1980 rape
that you can remember? Is there anything?”
YL
“If I can just recap? I am not sure about the tape, but the time the tape started was 12.59. Is there anything else you would like to add before we stop that tape?
We’ll start again in a couple of minutes. This is Friday 14th
March, we have just got to stop this tape and it is 13.42 on my watch”.
Tape 2 of SI/CZ/119/2003 “Rapes, Perjury and Conspiracy to Pervert”
DS
“Well I am DS Hooks, also present is DC Davies, we are interviewing Yolande
Lindridge, the second tape, and the tape reference is 8550003B?
It is 14th March 2003 and the time on my watch is 13.50. Now,
Yolande, we have quite a lot of detail on what I class as the second rape, which was May 1980, what I want to do now is what
I would class at the first rape, which happened in Portsmouth in April 1973. What
can you tell me about that one?”
YL
“I was .., I had a motor car, which was a Fiat, something was wrong with the calliper and it lost control on
the road and it knocked over a bus stop, and so it was off the road, and I was a student at Portsmouth Polytechnic, I was
a GKN sponsored under-graduate doing a Business Studies Degree, and I had gone .. I lived down in Southsea .. and I had gone
up towards the Fratton area of Portsmouth. I have not been back to Portsmouth
since 1974. The Fratton area in Portsmouth is on the East/ middle side, and I
went to see a friend of mine who owns a garage, and I was talking to him about my car, and while I was talking to him about
my car, somebody I know, a social chat with him, this man came in who was ‘fat’, he was, I suppose, late twenties,
I would guess, and he knew my friend, so they chatted to each other, then the bloke left, and I remained and finished off
what I was talking about and then went to leave his garage – it was the middle of the day – it was like morning
– and I went to go back by bus, well this other man was still around or whatever, and he offered me a lift. Right? And I thought that the other man was my friend, and
that was alright. Yes? And I got
in the car with him, and he was chatting away, he was chatting away and I was listening, and then he made some excuse to go
somewhere else, and this somewhere else had connections with horses, and he.., and I still hadn’t twigged that anything
was wrong and he persuaded me to get out the car to go and see these horses, and there was like a 5-bar gate-thing and it
was woods, it was isolated – it was woods – you know – he took me away and he took me down this path, this
wooded path, right? And he raped me. All …. I thought he was going to kill
me .. I thought I was going to die - All that seemed to stay in my mind for a
long time afterwards was his eyes, and it was like it was happening – I mean when he was doing it, I just remember his
eyes.”
DS
“What happened after the rape?”
YL
“He took me back in the car and dropped me in the middle of the streets, and I went straight to ….I have
been brought up a strict Catholic, always went to Convents, and my family was very religious.
When I was a student there (Portsmouth) I used to go to Church all the time and there was a very dynamic Catholic priest
who I seemed to relate to.
