Mum followed rules, but still got no justice

Alisha Sargeant said she was just nine years old when a boy struck her in the left eye and kicked her in the chest in Queen’s Park, The City.

Today, she is 25 and says the boy who attacked her seems to have vanished; the school she once attended turned a blind eye, and the High Court case meant to deliver her justice has never gotten off the ground.

Alisha and her mother, Gale Sargeant, are lamenting that the last 13 years have been a masterclass in systemic failure – a gruelling journey through a legal maze that exhausted their finances, compounded their trauma and left them staring at an empty courtroom.