In grave danger
Lucy, 34
Standing in the freezing cold, I wondered how I’d ended up here.
It was December 2019, and I was in Southend’s red-light district.
I needed cash, and this felt like my only option...
Life was good, once. I’d loved my job as a pub manager, had a partner and two gorgeous boys.
They were my whole world, but when their dad and I split up, I ended up in a bad relationship.
He introduced me to the world of drugs, destroyed my self-esteem.
In 2016, my boys, then 2 and 3, moved in with my dad while I sorted myself
