An abuse survivor slept with a kitchen knife under his pillow on the eve of his 11th birthday to stop sex attacks from his paedophile father.
Johnandrew Ballantyne’s desperate move came following four years of terror at the hands of John Ballantyne between 1987 and 1991.
The 60-year-old was sent to jail last month for a catalogue of abuse on his son and many others in Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire from 1977 to 2018.
