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Grooming gang survivor Fiona Goddard said justice is being “snatched away” from her, after discovering her abusers could be released from prison early. Ms Goddard has received a devastating official letter informing her that the monsters who attacked her as a child could be let out after serving just 33% of their prison sentences, due to the Government’s sentencing reforms.

Under Labour’s proposals, more than 90% of offenders sent to prison for child grooming, and more than 60% sent to prison for rape every year, will be allowed out early. Ms Goddard is now planning to move house and told of the devastating toll the letter from the Probation Service has had on her.

She warned releasing rapists and paedophiles early will put “every single person” in the country in more danger.

The survivor and campaigner declared: “I’ve been serving a sentence every day of life”.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch exclusively told the Daily Express: “Fiona Goddard, one of the bravest people I have ever met, received a letter from the Probation Service informing her about the potential early release of the monsters who abused her.

“Fiona told me the assurances she and other victims were given were a lie.

“She’s right. But she isn’t alone.

“Across Britain, the survivors of rape, child grooming, sexual assault and serious violence will have woken up to letters telling them that the men responsible for their abuse could now be walking out of prison potentially years earlier.

“Those survivors have gone through the trauma of a trial, seen the perpetrators convicted, and are now having to prepare themselves for the horror of seeing those same vile individuals walking down the street.”

Ms Goddard told the Daily Express: “It’s astounding this is allowed to happen and that people can get such lenient sentences for the most atrocious sexual violence.

“Even those who torture children aren’t being classed as the most dangerous offenders.

“My anxiety has gone through the roof. I was up until 4am throwing up. There’s no way I can stay here… I have six kids.

“It’s been 18 years since I was first abused, I’ve been serving a sentence every day of my life since then.

“I have had five women message me already to do with rapists and paedophiles [being let out early].

“Could you imagine any other country doing this? We can’t even lock up the most dangerous paedophiles.

“How many more times am I going to have to fight something like this? I am literally serving a life sentence while they are being considered for early release.”

She added: “These are some of the worst, most vile criminals in this country that are being assessed for release after just a slap on the wrist.

“The justice I got in that courtroom is being snatched away from me. We need to fight this. Rapists and paedophiles should not qualify for 33%.

“It is a nationwide issue and it is making the public more unsafe. Every single person in this country will be in more danger. Every single person should be fighting against this.”

Ms Goddard praised Mrs Badenoch and the Conservative team for fighting in her corner.

Under Labour’s plans, killers and rapists will be let out of prison early, while 43,000 criminals will avoid jail altogether.

Many will be out after spending just a third of their jail term in prison.

And those sentenced to four years or more will only be let out after serving 50% of their sentence behind bars.

A gang of nine monsters subjected Fiona and another 14-year-old girl to a catalogue of abuse in which she was plied with drink and drugs before being trafficked around towns in the North of England to be “effectively used as a prostitute”.

Fiona had held aspirations of becoming a lawyer until her life tumbled out of control after she was placed in a Bradford children’s home.

Fiona’s abusers were jailed for a total of 132 years in 2019 but some are now just two years from being free.

And this could be much sooner if her abusers are given early release dates.

It comes after the Sunday Express revealed child sex abusers locked up for “some of the worst possible offences” could be let out after spending just a third of their jail term behind bars.

This is because only the most “serious” offenders will be forced to spend half of their sentence in prison, a cut from the current 67%. This list includes those convicted of rape and assault by penetration.

But perverts caught making, distributing or publishing child sex abuse images and fiends jailed for sexual activity with a child could spend just a third of their sentence behind bars.

More than 6,500 of the most jailed serious offenders, including 624 rapists, paedophiles, stalkers, violent attackers, and even attempted murderers, qualify for early release.

Conservative Shadow Justice Minister Dr Kieran Mullan MP said “We warned every single MP that these plans would lead to thousands of the worst offenders responsible for horrific crimes against women and girls getting out of prison early.

“We gave them every opportunity to exclude them from the plans but in the end Labour & the Liberal Democrats worked together to force them through.

“That means victims of horrific crimes, just like Fiona, up and down the country, are receiving letters nobody would want to receive telling them their perpetrator is getting out of prison early.

“They might have mentally prepared for them leaving prison potentially years in the future because that is what they were told would happen.

“Now they have to be retraumatised and face a very different reality.”

“Of course it also means these people are going to be out on the streets free to offend earlier than they would have been.”

A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “This Government inherited a prison system in crisis and we are fixing it – building 14,000 more prison places and reforming sentencing so we can always lock up dangerous criminals. Without this decisive action, prisons would have run out of space entirely, putting the public at untold risk.

“Under our changes, prisoners who misbehave can face longer behind bars and those convicted of the most serious crimes will be excluded from earlier release.

“We’re also strengthening supervision in the community – investing £700million into probation, recruiting 1,300 additional probation officers this year, and ensuring every prison leaver is tagged unless there is a clear reason not to.”