00:00When Rachel Wake was killed by her ex-husband Darren Wake on Christmas Day three years ago,
00:08the trauma was overwhelming for her daughter Romani.
00:10She was the best mum in the entire world.
00:13She dedicated her entire life to me and my little brother and she was just so kind.
00:19But Romani's trauma continued after her father went to prison.
00:23So I got a phone call from the prison not long after Christmas Day being like, hey,
00:27he wants to contact you, will you be okay being on his contact list?
00:30I immediately said no, as I did not want anything to do with him.
00:35But refusing to receive phone calls didn't stop all communication.
00:39Darren Wake was still able to send letters to Romani, first directly and then via third
00:44parties.
00:45At first it was only one letter a day, but then it turned into five or six letters a
00:49day.
00:50So every day coming home there would be a fair few new letters in the mailbox.
00:55I was terrified.
00:57She had to get a restraining order to stop him contacting her.
01:00I don't want anyone else to experience what I went through with this because it was quite
01:04traumatic.
01:05In this instance I think the government should do everything it can to get to the bottom
01:08of how it's occurred and why it's taken so long to act.
01:11It's not an acceptable situation and it shouldn't happen in the future.
01:16In a statement the Department of Justice said it's investigating how Romani Wake was contacted
01:20and has put in place extra measures to make sure it doesn't happen again.
01:25It says the prison service does have arrangements in place to prevent mail going to people who've
01:29said they don't want to receive letters from prisoners, but Romani Wake says it should
01:34be more straightforward.
01:35What I want to see happen is a solid line made of when someone says no to receiving
01:43calls so that also is any other form of communication.
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