A woman has revealed how she was drugged by her husband so strangers could rape her while he broadcast the abuse online.
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Laura Bishop, who this week waived her right to anonymity, recounted the horror of waking up to find herself completely undressed with a man on top of her.
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In circumstances which bore some similarities to France's 'Monster of Avignon' case, Ms Bishop said she had been unaware of the abuse for five years – which saw strangers rape her while she was unconscious.
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Family photographs presented a misleading version of the couple's life – while in reality her husband, Daniel Bishop, was violent and controlling.
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Ms Bishop said he had been in charge of her prescription medication and in one home video could be seen urging her to take it.
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She believes the medicine was used to keep her sedated so he and other men could rape her.
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On some occasions Bishop poured powdered prescription medication into his wife's drinks to render her unconscious – later using a car wheel cleaner containing the toxic substance GHB.
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Ms Bishop recalled that the night before she awoke unexpectedly she remembered sitting at the breakfast bar in her kitchen with her husband, before he suggested they have a drink together.
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Laura Bishop, who this week waived her right to anonymity, recounted the horror of waking up to find herself completely undressed with a man on top of her
Daniel Bishop, who was 43 at the time of his sentencing, from Bristol, was jailed for 14 years and eight months with extended licence of eight years in 2022
'He poured me a gin and tonic.
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I couldn't see what he was doing.
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I never thought I'd need to watch what he did with my drink.
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'I don't remember finishing it,' she told ITV News.
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Hours later, Ms Bishop came round.
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'I woke up on the bed.
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I immediately looked to the right, and Dan was stood there; my husband was stood there in the doorway
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'And I can remember the first thing I thought was, I'm going to be strangled and murdered.
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But I started moving myself very quickly back up the bed and the man got up and ran off.'
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Ms Bishop managed to escape and Daniel Bishop, who was 43 at the time of his sentencing, from Bristol, was jailed for 14 years and eight months with extended licence of eight years in 2022.
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He pleaded guilty to three rapes, three attempted rapes, a sexual assault and administering a noxious substance.
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Home videos captured some of the abuse.
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Here, Bishop is seen urging his wife to take her 'medication'
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Family photographs presented a misleading version of the couple's life - while in reality, Bishop was violent and controlling
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If you're a kind and decent person, your mind isn't going to sit there imagining all of these horrors,' Ms Bishop said.
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'You couldn't fabricate it; you couldn't make this story up in your head if you tried.
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Despite how abusive he was, I never once thought that he was drugging me.'
While her former husband was in jail, Ms Bishop gathered evidence and recorded phone conversations with him.
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She discovered seven men in total had been raping her – with the last coming over twice, meaning the abuse occurred on eight separate occasions.
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Despite this, the men have still not been caught and walk free.
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This was amid a significant delay by police, ITV News reports.
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Officers seized Ms Bishop's bedsheets in August 2021, the night she awoke to a stranger raping her – however, the sheets were not tested for DNA until 20 months later.
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'Cases like this weren't heard of, so people within the police force weren't necessarily trained in what to do,' Ms Bishop said.
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Officers seized Ms Bishop's bedsheets in August 2021, the night she awoke to a stranger raping her - however, the sheets were not tested for DNA until 20 months later
Laura Bishop said she is worried other women are at risk and more needs to be done to uncover the identities of the men who participated in her abuse
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That being said, there were mistakes that were made.
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The police didn't collect all of the CCTV from the roads around my house.
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'The bed frame wasn't fingerprinted...
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I thought that was shocking, and I was told, "Well, it's too late now because other people would have touched the bed frame since".
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'I never believed that, so I put it in the loft and kept it in the loft for years.
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And then eventually when a new investigation team took over, they took the bed frame.
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'I want justice, from the evidence that was available that night I woke,' she said.
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Ms Bishop said she is worried other women are at risk and more needs to be done to uncover the identities of the men who participated in her abuse.
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Avon and Somerset Police said: 'We're sorry Laura feels let down by aspects of the overall investigation.
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…and 8 more, not listed.
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