Northumbria Police says this is only the second time a conviction has been made in England for the intentional transmission of HIV.<\/p>\n
The force believes Hall may have abused other men across the country, from County Durham, Middlesbrough and North and West Yorkshire to Manchester, and London.<\/p>\n
Sam is encouraging others to come forward and report what happened to them, despite the distress caused by reliving his abuse during police interviews and the trial.<\/p>\n
“It is extremely, extremely hard to go through but at the end of the day, once you’ve gone through that, the worst part is over and you do feel relief,” he says.<\/p>\n
The trial began in November and ended in March, with jurors reaching their verdicts after almost 43 hours of deliberations.<\/p>\n
“Hearing the news that he’d been found guilty was such a relief,” Sam says. “In knowing that I was believed, validated.”<\/p>\n
He has many questions for Hall.<\/p>\n
“Why?” Sam says, “what was the reason? <\/p>\n
“What possessed you to do what you did? Not just to me, but to everyone else that you’ve done it to, what did you gain out of it?” <\/p>\n
While his rapist now faces a long time in prison, Sam is looking forward to the rest of his own life as he plans to return to education with a view to becoming a nurse.<\/p>\n
“Just knowing that’s a chapter I can now close,” he says of the court case.<\/p>\n
“It has helped me to push forward and move on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northumbria Police says this is only the second time a conviction has been made in England for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-546722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}