I doubt she is either, poor girl. I hope she has the support around her that she needs.
It’s worth repeating some of her evidence here, to remind ourselves what she went through and how convinced she was that her assailant was sat in court opposite her.
“When you spend time in a situation like that with a person and there’s nothing else you can see on this human except their eyes, it’s the only thing you can remember. They bored into my skull. I’ll never forget it,” she said. She added that she thought the effect of her attacker’s eyes was intensified by the fact that otherwise he was completely dressed in black.
“They were just so blue … everything so dark … they were like lights, they were so bright. I just know them,” she said.
She said she suffered from recurring post-traumatic stress disorder and frequent panic attacks as a result of the assault. The court was shown pictures of scars on the backs of her legs that remain to this day, from where she was tied with rope to a breakfast bar during the prolonged attack at the flat where she lived.
She also said she still bled from wounds received during the violent attack.
Her attacker had been masked and was covered head to toe in a leotard-style body suit of about 60-denier thickness, and wore leather, or fake leather, gloves, she said, adding that only his eyes had been visible.
He spoke to her in English, in what she said was a German accent.
Over two days, Behan told the court in graphic detail how she was repeatedly raped, whipped and tied up in her apartment, the attacker filming the ordeal on a camera he had set up on top of the television in her room. The attacker threatened her, saying: “If you scream, I’ll kill you.” At one point she said she feared she would be beheaded after he wielded a knife at her.“
So, somewhere in the Algarve is a violent German rapist with piercing blue eyes who likes to enter women’s homes, dressed in a mask to inflict torture on his victims, who also videos his attacks but who ISN’T the German rapist with piercing blue eyes who committed a very similar rape on an American woman and who was seen committing other similar rapes on a video by witnesses whose testimony helped bring him to justice.
How utterly incredible.
