In May 2022, Natasha O’Brien was walking home after work when she was violently assaulted by a serving member of the Irish Defence Forces. Her attacker fled the scene immediately after and later boasted about the incident on social media to his friends.The court was told he initially tried to blame the victim for what happened. But after being shown CCTV footage of the incident he admitted that his account of the event was ‘all wrong’

For the first time, Natasha tells her story in full exclusively to Left On Read podcast. She talks us through what happened on that awful night, how the justice system let her and countless other victims of violence down and how she’s now fighting for cultural, social and legislative change.

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