Comatose is when you are affected with or characterized by a coma. Lying in a care of intensive care, mother of four Tara Jepson was subjected to a ruthless and calculated sexual assault by one-person she should have been able to trust, the male nurse at her bedside. A friend reported him to police, who eventually traced Tara, a successful sports agent and a former model, to tell her the devastating news that she’d been assaulted.
‘Tara said: “What he did was utterly despicable. I don’t think I will ever recover. I’m still in shock that a carer could be so callous as to do this to a patient.
“My body felt so violated it didn’t feel like mine any more. I even thought about getting a breast operation so that they would be new and different …show more content…
But she had no idea what he had done until police came knocking at her door.
“I had been suffering severe post-natal depression for a long time,” says softly-spoken Tara. “Then in the days before I took the overdose, three awful things happened at once. My dad died, I discovered my boyfriend at the time had been cheating on me, and I split with my business partner.
“I remember waking up in hospital and I didn’t know where I was. I was hysterical, waving my arms around and pulling at the tubes in my arms.
“Haldane took hold of my wrists and told me to calm down. I remember shouting at him, ‘Where am I, where am I?’ And I remember him leaning in towards me and saying, ‘You’re in the nuthouse’.”
Then, seven months later came the knock at the door which left her in turmoil. “I was having a girlie night in with a friend,” she says. “It was about 7.30pm when two plain-clothes police, one man and one woman, turned up.
“They asked me if I had been in Leicester Royal Infirmary the previous March, and I said I