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Katrine Bussey & Kaitlin Easton

Woman raped by ex-Prime Minister aide in Edinburgh bids to stop jail move

A woman who was raped by a former aide to two Prime Ministers is desperate to stop her attacker being moved to an open prison.

Mark Adams attacked the girl, then 17, in August 2017 as she walked home from a night out at the Edinburgh Festival. He was caged for seven years in March 2019.

Adams - who who worked in Downing Street under John Major and Tony Blair - was also sentenced to seven years imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court in January of the same year for raping another woman in 2015.

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