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She thought they had come to her rescue.

She and two girlfriends were on their way home from Mississauga’s Big Slicks bar when their car broke down in the early morning hours of July 5, 2015. To their aid came these two would-be knights in shining armour — or so they thought. Jimmy Minani and Byron Reid pulled up next to the young women and tried to get their car started. When they had no success, they pushed it to the side of the road and offered the women a ride.

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The three friends got into Minani’s van. But when he reached their home, only two would get out of the vehicle before Reid slammed the door shut behind them and Minani took off with the third woman still in the back seat — the one they figured was the one most intoxicated.

And so her nightmare began.

“I would like to address the defendants,” she would say almost three years later in her written victim impact statement. “You have no idea who I am, you don’t know me or anything about me but you have been inside of me physically, mentally, emotionally.