Ian Huntley grooming victim tells of her guilt after refusing to report the killer when he had sex with her at 15

One of Ian Huntley’s grooming victims has told of her guilt after refusing to report the killer when he had sex with her at 15, The Mirror reported. Emma Rawson confesses that she lied to social services about her fling with “first love” Huntley seven years earlier.

Ms Rawson said she fears her silence left him free to kill Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002. Now 42, she was so under the spell of her manipulative lover she lied to social workers who asked if she was having sex with him.

Emma, who was just 15 at the time, fears her silence back then may have left him free to go on and cruelly cut short the lives of the 10-year-old pals seven years later.

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“Had I said we were sleeping together, things might be different,” she said. “I feel guilty, he’s evil.”

As the 20th anniversary of the Soham murders approaches, she has lifted the lid on the torment she suffered at the hands of her “first love” Huntley.

Emma said she got pregnant by the monster but when she told him he gripped her by the throat and warned her: “I’ll kill you.” She also revealed police told her she was “lucky” she survived his abuse.

Emma started dating Huntley, now 47, in 1995 after being kicked out of her abusive family’s home. The mum-of-three said: “I’m sorry for lying to social services and saying we weren’t in a relationship.

“Had I said we were sleeping together, things might be different, he might not have been free to kill those girls. I feel guilty, I’m also angry that no one stopped him.

“He’s evil. He’ll be grinning about how many lives he’s ruined.

“That’s the sort of person he is. He’s clever, manipulative.

“He preyed on me because I was