A child abuse victim has waived her anonymity for a chance to tell her story in the Wiltshire Times.

Mum-of-three Vicky Hiscock, (27), was drugged and sexually molested by her stepfather for five years and on the eve of his early release from prison believed she was being targeted by an evil tirade of intimidation.

Dennis Donnithorne, (48), was released from Dartmoor Prison on Friday morning after serving half his nine month sentence for 11 indecent assaults on three young girls, aged between 12 and 15 at the time of the offences.

Brave Vicky spoke out

Vicky (left) spoke out about poison pen letters and bully-boy tactics employed by friends and family of the convicted paedophile. She said she harboured fears as her “childhood demon” was released from prison.

Wiltshire Times editor Toby Granville said: “Our reporter Craig Evry, who covers Melksham, covered the story at the time of the court case and has been following it since then.

“Craig had a meeting with the victim to find out how she felt about his release, and she said she wanted to speak out because she was being treated so harshly by Donnithorne’s family and friends. She was prepared to waive her anonymity to get her point of view across.

“In the circumstances it was extremely courageous for Vicky Hiscock to waive her anonymity as well as have her picture taken, and a commendable reflection on our reporter Craig that it was he she chose to speak to.”

Relatives and friends were rumoured to be planning a party to welcome him home, the latest in an alleged string of insults to humiliate his victims. Police were alerted to the party in case of violence.

Speaking about her fears, Vicky told the newspaper: “I cannot believe people are planning to celebrate the fact he abused us, this is what it amounts to. He almost gets a hero’s welcome. It is disgusting. I am even being threatened in the street.

“I have put up with all the horrible rumours from his friends trying to intimidate me. People said we had a vendetta against him. It is ridiculous.

“In court his friends and family were kicking my chair and saying things about having a barbecue on the green outside my house if he got off.”

When she was 13, Donnithorne plied Vicky with drugs, including LSD and speed, feeding an addiction which lasted until she became pregnant at 17.

Heavily pregnant Vicky was forced to confront her abuser about his crimes for the first time when he knocked on her door last September.

She said: “I just froze when I saw the monster standing there.”

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