202501950 A5 - [2025] EWCA Crim 1047

V’s mother made two victim impact statements. In her first she explained that V did not fully understand what had happened to her or how wrong it was. In her second, made in April 2025, after the hearing on 28 March where it had been submitted that there was an absence of evidence of significant psychological harm she wrote that V is not sleeping, and refuses to be in bed on her own. She cries at night. She still does not understand the seriousness of what the Offender did to her. Her mother worries about what the future will hold for V. She feels the Offender manipulated V and that at some point the family will have to explain her why he did those things to her. She does not know how her daughter will cope.