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She later joined a sports club headed by the teacher, and due to the sport’s nature the pair often spent time alone together. “When I would go out training by myself he would appear out of nowhere. To me at the time it seemed very fated [.]. In hindsight, I realised he was following me,” she said in evidence given to the inquiry in late September. The abusive sexual relationship started shortly after she turned 17. The abuse would happen in the car on the way to and from sports events, and on one occasion at her home when she was sick and he arrived to check on her.