'Victims must stand together' woman says as Wolverhampton man sent down for assault in Shropshire
A victim of sexual assault was in court to see the man who abused her sent down for eight years.
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The woman, who cannot be identified, spoke powerfully and in measured tones as Marcel Evans was being sentenced on three counts of sexual assault and one of indecency with a child today carried out in the early 1990s.
Evans, now of Wolverhampton, had been found guilty at a jury trial in Shrewsbury in July this year. The offences had taken place in Shropshire, the court heard.
“Victims must stand together,” she said in a victim impact statement given in person at Stafford Crown Court on Friday.
“We must be brave and call it out, the shame is theirs for doing it, not ours for being subject to it.”
The court was told that it had taken four years for the case to come to court.
Evans, aged 53, is now married and living in Burford Avenue, Wolverhampton.
His victim told Mr Recorder Mark Worsley that she has had to 'work hard to remove myself from the labels of victim and survivor' but she has 'created a good life for myself with people who love me'.
