katie�*s best friend in the running club had been broadcaster charlie webster.rved so much more than that. oh my god, i knew this would happen. all they seemed to care about was, oh, let'sjust get that one conviction. this afternoon a landmark victims bill will be debated in parliament with the aim of putting victims at the heart of the justice system. the ministry ofjustice told us they are quadrupling funding for victim support services, but an open letter to the justice secretary, written by charlie and backed by more than 150 charities, says the bill is missing a vital component — a statutory commitment to fund the specialist services needed to help victims. we absolutely can�*t encourage victims to come forward if we don�*t put their support in place. it�*s totally responsible for us as a society to do that. she was beautiful. she really was. she was my girl. rape crisis england and wales say right now 1a,000 survivors are waiting for support. it'sjust so sad. i feel betrayed for her, for my daughter. she was sacrificed. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. several uk

one of north's other victims was katie's best friend in the running club, charlie webster.e we used to come and sit on this piece of grass. i we just sit and, like, hang out. like you do when you kids mess about. -

one of north's other victims was katie's best friend in the running club, charlie webster. this is where we used to come and sit on this piece of grass. i we just sit and, like, hang out. like you do when you kids mess about. - giggle. talk to boys. all that stuff. eat chips. they'd been young and strong and dedicated, and they each carried a secret. both were being abused by north without the other knowing. this is a platform operation. after the court case, . none of us really spoke again, and i ran away from it all. i had a very, very difficult time. this is where we used to train on a saturday morning. - there's a few above memories of the park, though, _ because there was one - time when our coach come out of the woods with katie. i later found out that he raped her in the park. . i spent years andl years in this park. charlie had kept her abuse a secret for two decades. the last time i had contactl with katie, she wasjust not she was not in a good place. after the trial, the two girls had fled sheffield, charlie for london, katie for the other side of the world. but i

is being debated in parliament today, but charities including broadcaster and abuse survivor charlie websterabused by their running coach. katie�*s testimony helped convict him, but she struggled for years afterwards, and took her own life earlier this year. now her mother has been speaking to jayne mccubbin about katie�*s experience. you might find some of the detail in jayne�*s film distressing. this is katie. while she was doing the thing she loved most, she was being abused. we got a knock on the door midnight on saturday night, and it was the uk police. "have you got a daughter in australia?" yes. "i�*m sorry to tell you, she�*s passed away." i said, it can�*t be true. no, this can�*t be true. injanuary, katie took her own life. she was almost a0. stop! and it�*s such a traumatic thing to hear that your daughter�*s done that. she felt so bad that she did that. katie would want something good to come from this. that�*s why you�*re speaking? definitely. katie�*s best friend in their running club had been broadcaster charlie webster. this is where we used to come and sit on this piece of g

a call for better support for abuse victims — broadcaster charlie webster on the loss of her friend katie it is totally irresponsible for us as a society to do that.

charlie webster was watching the moment katie's story the minister of state for victims has agreed to struggled trying to get some sort of access. it's so hard to think that there's so many people that reallyjust want to say, can i get help now, now, not in two months, three months. so this is, i can't believe, i'm overwhelmed by allthis, overwhelmed. i never thought that we would get to this place. to me, it'sjust my journey for my daughter. but thanks to the likes of you and charlie webster and everyone else out there, it's bringing it to life, it's amazing, it's amazing and i hope it keeps on running. it certainly is having a lot of resonance with so many families, thank you for sharing it. you can watch a documentary that we have made on the bbc iplayer, called our girl katie, running from abuse. it's a really powerful watch. many of us probably have a favourite teddy bear that we can't bear to part with. but for one woman, her love for the stuffed toys has led her to collect a staggering 13,000 of them. 13,000. that is a lot of hugs. how do ou 13,000. that is a lot of hugs. how d