petrify

"We are seeing a lot of people coming in who are struggling - we've had people get in touch who are absolutely petrified," Boylan said.

While the BBC cannot independently verify their stories, almost all say they are petrified that one day, they might bump into a captor on the street or on a bus.

"I'm really scared for the future. The thought of my seven-year-old having a phone is absolutely petrifying."

A mental health assessment recorded Richards as being "petrified and unsafe", with a prison induction officer warning he was like a "rabbit in headlights" when learning there was no dedicated unit for vulnerable prisoners.

“He will tell you had this been a stranger, someone he didn’t know as well, he would have been petrified.”