t had been eight months since Katrina left prison, she bitterly recalls her time in prison. She was a normal hard working mother and wife with an amazing career which would see her go far before.

　　Now she was a ex con.

　　She had lost everything her job her home. Thankfully she still had her children and her husband. Although she wished she didn’t have the latter.

　　As it was her husbands fault she went to prison, her husband had a crippling bad spine and poor health despite only being 36 he was very unwell, as a result she knew he couldn’t cope with prison so Katrina took the blame. She was charged with fraud.

　　She spent five months and three weeks In prison. The fraud was for £100,000.00. She had no idea where the money had gone, all she knew was that her husband came to her one night and told her he committed fraud and would go to prison. She instantly told him it would be ok and that she would take his place. She said it as a reaction but never expected her husband to agree.

　　Now Katrina, Doug and there four children were living in a bed and breakfast.

　　Katrina felt her world was collapsing around her.

　　She drove the thirty five trip to pick up the kids from school.

　　After picking up all the children she started the car. However it wouldn’t start. She tried several times but with no success.

　　Katrina cried, how could so much go so wrong.

　　The rain was coming down heavily. Katrina got out of the car, sat on the kerb and cried. Hugging her knees she cried like she has never cried before, she always held hope that once she left prison life would get better, but it seemed no matter what she did things were just getting worse and worse. She was on the brink of a total emotional breakdown.

　　After remaining on the curb in the rain for about an hour Doug drove past to pick us up. “I don’t remember calling you?” Katrina thought. Doug seemed to have understood my confused face and told me that Oliver whom was still sitting in the car had messaged him.

　　When they finally got back to there temporary accommodation Katina had cried so much that she was exhausted. Katrina went straight to bed and thought That tomorrow would be a better day. After all it can’t get any worse.

　　As Katrina lay in the bed staring up at the ceiling, she wondered why on earth she took the blame, she had no idea where all this money went. She would ask her husband from time to time but his response was always the same “it’s in the past, we need to focus on the future”.

　　Katrina was so obsessed with keeping her family together, she didn’t consider ramifications when she said those fateful words “I’ll take take your place.”

　　She understood completely now, Katrina spend six years in education graduating from Cambridge University first in her class, working hard to become a finance director. She worked hard everyday she had risen to become head of AMEA and APAC in her pharmaceutical company and was looking forward to further promotion, many people expected her to become the Global director eventually.

　　Now she would never work again. With a criminal record for fraud she couldn’t even get a job pulling pints at the local pub. Eventually Katrina fell asleep.