"Forgiving my attacker was easy...But forgiving myself for what happened took me 25 years."

"I’ve found that in order to forgive someone you have to pass a judgement on them in the first place. And I question that."

"He was just a kid, and a bit thick, and here he was in prison, with a criminal record and I was responsible for that."

"For me forgiveness is about finding an inner peace and accepting the cards you’ve been handed in life."

"If offenders engage with restorative justice at a young age, you might be able to nip it in the bud."

"The thought of meeting Jordan frightened me, and I didn’t want to get into an argument with him, but I wanted to know why he’d behaved the way he had."

"On leaving the prison I realised that things had changed for me; I’d gone from being a victim of crime to being able to see things more from Billy’s point of view."

"Forgiveness for me is a healing process, but it depends on people communicating and understanding."