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TWO sisters who were brutally abused by their paedophile dad have described their horror after he left a £400,000 legacy to an organisation for young girls.

Devastated Dianne Paul, from West Lothian, has described her father's final act as "his last, most hateful, vengeful power trip".

And she called on the charities named in his £1million will - including the Girl Guides in Scotland - to consider returning some of the tainted money to the family who endured years of torment at the hands of Reginald Forester-Smith.

The wealthy society photographer was jailed for eight years in 1999 for subjecting his two daughters - and another schoolgirl - to a sustained, systematic campaign of sexual abuse.

Much of it was carried out while his Girl Guide leader wife took other children camping.

Forester-Smith died last year but, when his will was finally revealed last month, it emerged he had written out all his family members and left his fortune to three charities.

Dianne, who's now 51 and an employment adviser, said: "We were just dismayed, to be honest. He hasn't done this out of admiration or respect for the Guides.

"He's done it because he managed to abuse his own children while his wife was at Guides. He knew what it would mean to us.

"I can assure you that the man never gave a jot about charity all his days and this is a pure attack on us, his children, just when we thought he couldn't hurt us again.

"The money would have gone some way to give us a bit of compensation for him having robbed us of our childhood and it would finally have given us a bit of security."

Two other charities - Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK - each stand to receive more than £300,000 from Forester-Smith's estate. But Dianne, and her half-sister Tori Dante, want charity bosses to know the truth about their father's crimes in the hope they will honour the family's request.

Tori, 42, who lives in Manchester, said: "I've spoken to both the cancer charities and they've told me that their policy is not to accept donations if they are tainted in some way.

"My dad was a convicted paedophile who abused his own children.

"The estate includes the insurance money he inherited from my mother, who died of bowel cancer while he was in jail. It was money she never wanted him to have and she made us promise to fight him for it."

"Giving a donation to the Guides is the ultimate kick in the teeth.

"I was raped while my mother was away at Guides. In a way, my dad loved the Guides more than mum did because of what he could get away with.

"I know that's not the Guides' fault. He's put us all in such an awkward position. That's typical of my dad.

"We're not saying they should give it all back - we know every charity could do with the money - but we're asking whether, out of the goodness of their hearts, they would actually give a donation back to us.

"It's the only form of recompense that we will ever have, the closest thing to 'sorry' we will ever get from him."

Forester-Smith raped and abused his daughters between 1967 and 1985, starting with Dianne when she was nine and eventually moving on to Tori when she turned six.

He also put a third little girl through horrific sexual assaults.

But to his well-heeled friends and clients, the father-of-five was the perfect gentleman, regularly called upon to take pictures of the Queen and Prince Philip whenever they visited Scotland and photographing celebrity racing drivers like Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill.

After splitting from his first wife, Dianne's mother, he left that family in Edinburgh.

He moved to a seven-bedroom mansion in Annan, Dumfriesshire, with his second wife Sheena, a respected member of the Girl Guide movement.

His children had ponies and went to boarding schools, they were dressed in the best of clothes and played with expensive toys, but no one knew the outward displays of privilege were disguising a depraved private life.

Tori said: "My childhood must have seemed idyllic. From the outside, we had everything we could need materially but we didn't have anything that mattered.

"My father had money. His presents weren't lollipops and puppies. He would say, 'Here's a horse, or a saddle, or a car', or he'd offer to pay off your debts. It was all about his guilt.

"I asked to go to boarding school to get away from it but it continued whenever I was home. I tried telling teachers and matrons what was going on but no one believed me because no one thought that dad was that type of person.

"The abuse went on till I was 16, when he violently raped me. That was the end of the physical abuse. It was as if he had been building up to that."

Neither daughter knew of the other's ordeal until 1997, when they revealed their experiences to one another and confronted their father.

When he refused to admit to his crimes or apologise to the women, they decided to press charges against him.

Dianne said: "It took two years to come to court and he made us relive it all. It was a horrible thing to have to take your own father to court and watch him standing there denying it all.

"He insisted it was all lies but actually claimed he'd had an 'affair' with me that only started when I was 16. In his sick mind, that was all right.

"He was actually sentenced to 17 years in total but the judge said the sentences should run concurrently, which meant he would really just serve eight years.

"In the end he was inside for just five years and he emerged as bitter and twisted as he'd always been, with no remorse at all.

"He was offered counselling in prison, which he never took, and he proceeded to write letters to Tori and the other girl involved telling them they'd soon be inside themselves for what they'd done to him.

"He came out of jail in October 2004 and wrote his will in January 2005, his final way of saying, 'I'll show them'."

The death of their father was a relief to Dianne and Tori, who both have two children of their own now. For the first time ever, Tori was able to leave her curtains and blinds open after dark, finally confident her dad wasn't watching.

But the emergence of his will has brought the darkest of memories flooding back.

Tori added: "Even after his death, he is still abusing us."

Girlguiding UK: "We are aware of the legacy left to guiding, in memory of Mrs Forester-Smith. The matter is currently in the hands of the executors going through the legal administrative process and as such it would be inappropriate for us to comment."

Cancer Research UK: "Cancer Research UK is liaising with the executors of the estate in question at the moment so we are not yet able to say what the outcome of this will be."

Macmillan Cancer Support UK: "We are looking into this legacy and liaising with the executors of the will."