内容摘要："I've never seen focus like that from Gerwyn Price," he said.

"I've never seen focus like that from Gerwyn Price," he said.

On Friday, Recorder Simon Levene sentenced him to two years in prison, suspended for 24 months, and told him he had "misread" the situation.Describing her friendship with Nikolic before the attack, Ms Piggin said: "We were inseparable."

The pair had been on a night out with friends in Norwich when the assault happened in April 2023.The court heard that she had agreed Nikolic could stay at her home in the city, but when she woke up, he was assaulting her."It was incomprehensible that my best friend would do something like that to me," she said.

Ms Piggin, who is now unable to work due to her mental health,said the assault left her with a sense of "confusion, betrayal and sadness".

She said she could not believe her former friend "abused" the trust she gave him.

The attack on 29 April 2023, has left Ms Piggin with anxiety issues and led to her dropping out of her Open University course.For Jade Bradford, from Hertfordshire, it was a life-long dream to attend Hay Festival.

As a communications and engagement manager for a social housing provider in south Wales, writing is Jade's second job.After growing up seeing the Guardian's Hay Festival supplement every year when her dad would buy the paper, this year she was in attendance as a Writer at Work.

"Publishing, it can feel like a closed door sometimes and it's hard to know who you need to speak to, what it is you actually need, how you get an agent," the 39-year-old said.She said if audiences at events like Hay Festival were not representative they may not know their books are not diverse enough, or "that they need to hear other voices".