JEANNE Marie Ryan deserves a huge amount of credit for refusing to let a senseless attack intimidate her.
In fact she has taken the exact opposite view, embracing the current social media trend of self-taken no make-up pictures and using the image of her battered face to raise money for the Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre.
The message it sends is as powerful a reply to her attacker as any she could utter.
Jeanne Marie is brave and defiant. Her attacker, a man who thinks of hitting a woman who spurns him, is just morally weak and a coward.
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