AN inspirational woman who waived her right to anonymity after being brutally raped and became a champion of victim’s rights will have her ashes scattered in her ‘beloved’ Nefyn.

Jill Saward was attacked on 6 March 1986 after a gang of burglars broke into her family home. Her father and her then-boyfriend, David Kerr, were tied up and beaten, both suffering fractured skulls, while she was raped.

The incident received considerable international media coverage because the house was identified as that of the vicar of Ealing.

From 1990, Jill worked in various roles to support victims of rape and sexual violence.

In 1994, she set up a support group for rape victims and their families and also helped to campaign for a change in the law that prevented people accused of rape from cross-examining their alleged victims.

Sadly the 51-year-old died of a brain haemorrhage on 5 January in hospital in Wolverhampton.

Her husband, Gavin Drake, said it was always his wife’s wish to be laid to rest in Nefyn, where she could “always be herself”.

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