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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Kate Pounds & Amy Sharpe

Woman worked so hard to become first blind and Black barrister she ended up in hospital

Jessikah Inaba has smashed through a “triple-glazed glass ceiling” to become Britain’s first blind and Black barrister.

She completed her tough five-year course using Braille to read legal texts and at one point ended up in hospital after working herself to breaking point to achieve her dream.

She also faced racist attitudes when prison officials repeatedly assumed she was a visiting relative rather than a lawyer come to interview a client.

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