In a truly humbling display of courage one of James Lloyd's victims told Lucy Harvey she can finally start rebuilding her life now the man who raped her has admitted his crimes.

Victim's Story
She waited 22 years to hear the man who raped her admit it, and yesterday she got her wish.
As James Lloyd stood in the dock at Sheffield Crown Court and quietly uttered the word "guilty" the 46-year-old was overcome with emotion.
Finally she was in control.
The victim said: "For more than 20 years he has had the control. I didn't know who he was and have always been looking over my shoulder.
"I needed to hear him admit it. That's what I had been waiting for. And I watched him admit it.
"I looked at him and thought you pathetic little man. Now I'm in control. And he can rot in hell for all I care."
More than two decades earlier Lloyd changed her life in the most terrifying and brutal way imaginable.
A "happy-go-lucky" 25-year-old factory worker, she went out with her cousin to a Rotherham nightclub on Saturday, October 27, 1984.
At around 2am, and for the first time in her life, she decided to walk home alone to the house she shared with her mother.
Wearing a grey pinstripe skirt and jacket, black suede heels and carrying a handbag she set off, and was soon walking along Wickersley Road.
At 2.30am, as she neared Herringthorpe Leisure Centre, Lloyd, who was wearing a stocking over his face, grabbed her by the throat and dragged into the public toilets.
She said: "I can see it all now. He came up from behind and put his whole arm around my neck so I could not scream. He dragged me into the toilets and threw me on the floor.
"I lost a shoe on the way in so he went back outside and got it. I was in shock. I was just thinking 'What's going to happen?'. I thought 'I'm just going to do whatever he wants, I just want to get out of this alive'. All I said was 'Don't hurt me'."
Ignoring her desperate plea Lloyd set about his evil intention, careful to stay out of sight as much as possible.
"He must have taken my tights and knickers off first, because then he started tying me up," she said.
"He tied my hands behind my back with my tights, but he must have brought some more with him as well, because then he tied my head down to my knees with another pair of tights or stockings.
"It was really tight and cut into the back of my legs and neck. Then he gagged me with my own knickers so I couldn't scream. He never took any of my clothes off, didn't even undo my jacket."
As she lay helpless on the floor Lloyd raped her.
"It seemed to go on forever but it probably wasn't really. It just felt like it. I just wanted it over and done with.
"He took my shoes, my bag and my jewellery and then he shoved me into one of the toilet cubicles and said 'Don't come out till I've gone. Don't tell anyone. I know where you live'."
After a short time she bravely ventured out into the street, petrified her attacker was waiting outside.
When she saw a light on at a house across the road she ran over to raise the alarm.
"The poor couple who lived there didn't know what was happening. I couldn't get my words out. It wasn't until I got inside the house and was just with the woman that I told her what had happened. I couldn't tell the man," she said.
The middle-aged couple phoned the police and an officer arrived shortly afterwards to take her to the police station to be interviewed.
"Two policemen started asking me questions and I don't think they believed me at first. But then they saw the marks on my wrists and they knew I was telling the truth."
After having a medical examination, where vital DNA evidence was gathered which would eventually lead to his capture, she was sent home.
Although her mother and sisters were told what had happened, it was never openly discussed. Her friends still don't know what happened, and she has never had counselling.
"I was never the same person afterwards. I wanted to forget it, or try to anyway. I had to blank it out, otherwise I couldn't have coped.
"I had never spoken about it until the case was reopened in 2002."
After being contacted by police four years ago, she courageously agreed to help appeal for more information on BBC TV's Crimewatch.
When no new leads were discovered she tried to forget once more, but says she remained confident the police would one day catch him.
In March her resolve was rewarded. Officers called to say they had a suspect in custody and the next day a policewoman came to her house with an item of jewellery they had found at Lloyd's house.
"It was a charm bracelet my sister had given me for my birthday. I recognised it straight away. They asked if it was mine, and if I could be sure.
"I said 'It's definitely mine. If you open that little church charm there'll be a bride and groom inside'."
There was, and with the strong DNA evidence it was clear the so-called shoe-rapist had finally been caught.
Yesterday the woman – victim number four – courageously sat in court for the third time, alongside some of Lloyd's other targets.
"I needed to go to court and find out what he looked like. It's like I needed to face the demon," she said.
"His face had been blank for all these years. I had to see his face so I could stop looking at every man thinking it was him.
"The first time I saw him I thought I was going to be physically sick but I quickly calmed down.
"After that I just needed to see him admit what he had done.
"When I heard he had tried to commit suicide in prison I was angry because if he had killed himself before admitting what he had done I would have felt cheated. He would still have been in control, controlling us.
"Now I'm in control."
She added: "I think he will kill himself in prison, and I don't care.
"He doesn't frighten me. It was not knowing that frightened me. It's a lot easier knowing he is not out there any more."
Being raped changed this woman's life. Now 46, she still does not trust men, has never had a long-term relationship, and will not go out on her own.
She says her 'saving grace' has been her teenage daughter, born after a brief affair years after her attack.
And now, after watching Lloyd admit his crimes, she feels she can "start again".
"I don't see him in my sleep any more and I can stop looking over my shoulder," she said.
"Finally I can get on with my life knowing he has got no future, and he can't hurt anyone else."