“There were a 100 pieces of a puzzle floating around in my head, and suddenly they came together in my head.” “In the few months leading up to his arrest, his behaviour had been quite strange but never in a million years could I have imagine this,” Rachel told. She is witty and wise, and yet was completely fooled by her abusive, controlling husband until his self-promoted image as a devoted father cracked. Rachel is a highly intelligent and successful businesswoman. It is only at the end of the criminal trial for Roberts’s child sex crimes, that the concurrent civil case can be revealed. Incarcerated in Parklea correctional centre in western Sydney, a relative of Roberts is suing Rachel for $100,000 in an unrelated matter. “He’s a psychopath and a narcissist and he not only groomed my daughters, I realise now he had started on a third, his own biological daughter.” “I’ve got six kids to bring up and four of them are his, but he doesn’t care about them. “He drugged me, drugged my daughter and raped her for years, now he’s trying to rob me,” she said. He drugged her so he could rape her daughters and was starting to groom his own biological daughter when the police were called, but the nightmare is not yet over for Rachel Knight*.Įven with ex-husband in prison, locked up as a convicted paedophile, child rapist and poisoner, Barry John Roberts* continues to persecute her via the justice system.
