Angel Lynn’s devastated mum breaks down in tears as she reveals hardest part of daughter’s terrifying kidnap ordeal
ANGEL Lynn’s devastated mum broke down in tears in a new documentary as she revealed the hardest part of her daughter’s terrifying kidnap ordeal.
Angel, now 22, was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend and left with catastrophic brain injuries.
Just 19 at the time, Angel was grabbed from behind and bundled into a van by ex Chay Bowskill, 20, and his accomplice Rocco Sansome, 20.
She then fell from the moving van which had reached speeds of up to 60mph on a dual carriageway.
And in a new documentary titled The Kidnap of Angel Lynn, her mum Nikki, 48, described the thing she most struggles with after the horror.
The mum-of-six was asked by the interviewer: “What is the hardest part?”
Fighting back tears, Nikki said: “Knowing that he hurt her.”
It comes after Bowskill pushed Angel against a wall so hard she smashed her head and suffered a fit before the kidnap.
Bowskill was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison after being found guilty of kidnap, coercive and controlling behaviour, and perverting the course of justice.
Last May Court of Appeal judges increased his sentence to 12 years after they concluded his original term for the kidnap was not long enough.
During his trial at Leicester Crown Court, the prosecution failed to prove Angel was thrown or pushed out of the vehicle — driven by Bowskill’s friend Sansome.
Sansome was also found guilty of kidnap and is now out of prison after being sentenced to 21 months.
The devoted mum previously recalled how her daughter’s head “bounced like a football” and she rolled for nearly 50 metres.
Bowskill and Sansome then drove off, leaving Angel for dead on the A6 near Loughborough.
In the doc, which aired tonight on Channel 4, Angel’s dad Patrick said she had always been a “daddy’s girl” and told how things changed when she met Chay.
He said: “Everything changed when she met Chay.
“She would tell fibs she must have been ashamed of him, probably because he wasn’t a good boy.
“It broke my heart because me and Angel were always close.”
Patrick recalled the moment he found out they were expecting a girl and knew instantly she would be called Angel.
He added: “As soon as we knew it was a girl I said ‘we’re calling her Angel’, and she’s always been my angel.
“She was just daddy’s girl.”
The heartbroken parents were told Angel wouldn’t survive following the attack in September 2020.
However, she has now been able to stand for the first time since and in a breath-taking clip Angel was able to sign “I love you” to her mum.
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