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Under his spell

Samantha Shrewsbury, 54, Oxford

Watching my daughter Jayden sobbing down the phone to her boyfriend, my blood boiled.

It was December 2012 and we were visiting family in France.

Only, Jayden, then 16, had barely stopped crying.

‘He’s not worth it, love,’ I said, comforting her.

Jayden had met Ben Blakeley, then 21, a year or so earlier.

I worried from the word go.

Ben was older for a start.

But he’d promised he’d look after Jayden, and she thought he was a proper Prince Charming.

Only, now, my fears were coming true.

He’d slept with another girl, Jayden had found out.

‘Ditch him,’

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