Survivor
Fatima Whitbread had the worst possible start in life. Abandoned as a baby, she spent much of her childhood in and out of children''s homes. A brief, disastrous stay with her birth mother saw her raped by her mother''s drunken boyfriend - while her mother held a knife to her throat to ''quieten her down''. Fatima was only twelve at the time.
Athletics was her saviour: local athletics coach Margare...
Fatima Whitbread had the worst possible start in life. Abandoned as a baby, she spent much of her childhood in and out of children''s homes. A brief, disastrous stay with her birth mother saw her raped by her mother''s drunken boyfriend - while her mother held a knife to her throat to ''quieten her down''. Fatima was only twelve at the time.
Athletics was her saviour: local athletics coach Margare...
