Jill Saward obituary

Victim of the Ealing vicarage rape in 1986 who waived her right to anonymity and became a determined campaigner against sexual assaultJill Saward, who has died aged 51 after suffering from a stroke, was a formidable campaigner on behalf of survivors of sexual assault, who inspired changes to legislation, policy and attitudes on rape. In 1986, when Saward was 21, a gang of men in balaclavas armed with knives, broke into her father’s vicarage in Ealing, west London.They beat Saward’s t