It's the early hours of Tuesday morning, and I've been awake since 3am.  Not entirely sure why, but I've given up trying to sleep and thought I'd make a start on this new, now public, journal.

Last week, Friday 28th February, something phenomenal shifted in my life.  At 3.40pm, I found out that following a traumatic week in Court, a jury unanimously found my grandad guilty of a number of multiple charges of indecent assault and rape of a minor.  This drew to an end an 18-month long police investigation that consisted of lots of delays and complications.

I still feel kind of numb about the whole things.  I feel bad that he's looking at jail time (the judge said "lengthy", and our barrister reckons that could mean double figures).  He goes back on 3rd April for sentencing.  More importantly for me however, this means he'll be on the Sex Offenders Register for life.