Martin Daubney reduced to tears as Charlie Peters reads powerful statement from victim of migrant rape attack: 'No child should have to say that'

Reacting to the statement, Martin cried as he appeared lost for words before declaring "no child should have to say that".

On behalf of the teenage girl, Charlie read her distressing statement on-air for GB News viewers. It read: "I struggle to find the words to start this. I've gone over in my head what I could say and how to explain something like this.

"Before I start, I want to say that putting embarrassment to the side and showing vulnerability for strangers to hear has been really difficult, along with trying to capture the darkness I have been living within for the last 16 months since this happened.

"There's a kind of loneliness that goes beyond being alone in a room. It's the kind when you're surrounded by people but you're stuck in a bubble. It's where the world around you is moving, but you can't follow it. It's where no one else can sit in your body and feel what it's like to be you.

"It's difficult to articulate the depth of the darkness. This process, this pain and this constant fight to keep going is it's something I've had to face alone. Every memory, every night and every moment that has been mine to carry, and sometimes that's the hardest part. Not just what happened, but the silence afterwards."

The statement continued: "The 14th of February 2024 was once a day that I believed symbolised love, connection and joy. It now marks the day where my life was forever changed. I was a child who believed in good people, I believed in kindness. The idea that if you treat the people who surround you with kindness, that would be reciprocated.

"I never thought that one night could change so much. It changed everything I knew about myself. My body became something I no longer wanted to associate with, and my voice became something I no longer wanted, because in the moment I needed it most, it failed to protect me. It's like looking in the mirror and not recognising the person, staring back, feeling like your body isn't yours anymore, like it belongs to the memory of what happened instead.

"Not even wanting to be associated with yourself because you feel so violated and disgusted to be you. Standing in front of the mirror and facing the reflection of that night is a pain I can't avoid. It's a constant reminder that the past is engraved in who I am, and accepting that truth is a struggle I face every day."

She said: "I was forced in a moment that didn't end for me. When he was finished, it followed me. When he was done, he got to walk away, but I was left to deal with the battle. I have been left to carry a trauma that invades every part of my life, and he was able to leave and return to his life without consequence. Mine feels like it's fallen apart. I wasn't the child who used to be full of light and laughter. That version of me slowly faded, which meant my friendships began to shift.

"Looking back, I know I became distant, unreliable, someone who seemed to be spiralling. And in many ways, I think I was. I wasn't the friend I once was and who I wanted to be. I became too consumed by everything I was trying so hard to bury. When you're hurting that much, you believe the people you love and care about would be better off without the broken version of you. I know it wasn't my fault, but knowing doesn't take away the pain. Knowing doesn't erase the shame, the humiliation.

"Being forced to relive the worst moment of my life in front of strangers, speak about something so deeply personal, so violating, so humiliating. It doesn't erase the feeling of exposure. It's the kind of thing you think lives far away from your own world, but it's now my reality."

Recalling the trial proceedings, she stated: "I sat in a chair waiting, carrying the weight of everything I had been through and building up the courage it took just to be there. Just before I was about to go in. It was a journey for reasons outside my control. It was another moment where I felt out of control and another time my life was put on hold. At the time, I got told I was being brave, but I didn't feel brave. I felt powerless and tired.

"That day became yet another reminder that this person still has influence over my life. Just by delaying, deciding and dragging things out, it feels like another act of control, and that hurts in a way that's hard to explain. I was still stuck in a cycle of waiting, wondering, and reliving everything over and over in my head. I refuse to let the person who did this to me keep that power. I'm doing it for freedom so I can heal from this one day. Because more than anything, I want to carry peace in a place that has been filled with such darkness for so long."

Overcome with emotion, a tearful Martin told Charlie: "Charlie, what can you say? I mean, there's no child who should have to say that. There's no parent who should have to know that's happened to their child, and there's no court in the land that should deny a victim the right to say that and to have their moment of closure. And that's what happened in this case.

"I know you put a huge amount of work into helping this family and to making sure that we heard that. I think the nation deserves to hear that. And it's an astonishing Charlie. We speak so often of just the astonishing, mind blowing bravery of these children who can somehow put that down in a way to get their feelings. I'm completely blown away by the wonderful personality that you just hope survives and makes it through this."

Charlie responded: "The family are keen for that to come through, keen for us to hear this information today, because this brave survivor has been through something that nobody should have to endure.

"We've made sure this brave survivor, this brave girl who was attacked in Oxford city centre, has made sure that those weren't the last words in those proceedings, that actually her bravery and her commitment to her recovery and her saying what happened to her, her impact statement is actually the final word on this case."

A Home Office spokesperson said: “Our thoughts are with the victim of this horrific crime.

"We will seek to deport foreign nationals who commit crimes on British soil.

"We have returned over 35,000 people with no right to be here in the government’s first year in office, including 5,179 foreign national offenders. This is an increase of 14 per cent compared to the same period 12 months prior."