内容摘要："You entirely misread the situation," he told Nikolic, adding "I do take into account your lack of maturity."

"You entirely misread the situation," he told Nikolic, adding "I do take into account your lack of maturity."

She spoke out after Stefan Nikolic, 20, of Coast Road, Bacton, in Norfolk, was found guilty of assault by penetration.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.Hanan's first time at Hay Festival in the Powys town of Hay-on-Wye was seven years ago as a selected writer joining the Writers at Work programme, which aims to support emerging Welsh talent.

She described the 10 days of workshops and events as an "eye-opener", helping to demystify the process of getting published and filling her with confidence as a writer too."If it had just been a one-off, I would say that was a tokenistic opportunity. But it hasn't been. I've been asked back time and time again... as a performer onstage," she said.

Some of Hanan's highlights of the festival this year included seeing Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist Mona Chalabi in conversation, as well as Kehinde Andrews, the UK's first professor of black studies.Throughout her visit this year, the poet said she noticed "way more hijabis".