Josie planned her escape from Ahmed’s clutches very carefully. Almost as soon as she realised that Jackson Parrott was interested only in selling her body, she hid a credit card in a box of Tampax, reasoning that Jackson was unlikely to look in there. She was right. Neither Jackson, or later Ahmed, ever checked that box of tampons. For the first few days, Josie was kept locked in a bedroom at the back of the house and was r***d several times by both Ahmed and his brother Ibrahim. The r***s were intended to make her compliant. She was also fed drugs, which of course she had to pay for by ‘servicing her customers’ She was not at the time injecting, but ‘chasing the dragon’, that is, smoking the h****n. She would put powdered h****n onto a piece of tinfoil and heat it from below with a

