Another sexual abuse victim has spoken out following the ordeal suffered by the 10th Earl of Sandwich’s son Robert Montagu.

The woman, now in her 50s, was so traumatised by being raped by a succession of Asian men more than 30 years ago that she has never spoken about her suffering – not even to her family.

But in the light of Mr Montagu’s story of his abuse and seeing his courage she wants to tell her story to try and encourage others to speak out.

She is going to visit Mr Montagu for counselling and while she is not yet ready to be identified she wants to take the first steps by revealing what happened to her as a naive teenager from Bridport living in London.

The woman was working as a secretary when she was held captive by five Asian men and used as a prostitute during an 18-hour ordeal.

She met her abuser at a disco and wrongly believed he knew her friend.

They danced and when he offered to drive her home she thought it would be fine.

She said he made an excuse to stop to see someone on the way home.

She waited in the car but he finally persuaded her to come in.

Her nightmare began.

She fought, she tried to break a window with her elbow but she couldn’t escape. She was taken to a room and her arms and legs were held down and she was raped by a succession of men – all of whom knew she was being held against her will, she says.

Her captors threatened to kill her – a threat she believed.

They offered her drugs and a share of their ‘takings’ from the men raping her. She refused.

“There was no emotion in any of them. I was less than nothing to them,” she said.

Finally they returned her clothes and dropped her off at a bus stop in East London.

She said: “I didn’t go to the police until three days later. I just wanted to curl up at home and not function.

“They had obviously done it before and they would obviously be doing it again and I thought I can’t let it continue.”

She was told by police that she couldn’t remain anonymous so couldn’t agree to go to court.

She still can’t bear her family to know all these years later, even though the constant news about the abuse in Rotherham is stirring up painful memories.

She said: “I couldn’t bear for them to see me in any other light than they do now, which is as a strong caring mother, daughter, sister, friend.

“The first thing they’d think about when they saw me would be that, they wouldn’t see me anymore, or the things I’d done, just the awful thing that had happened to me.”

She believes Rotherham must be just the tip of the iceberg.

“In Rotherham they are talking about the 90s and this was in the 70s, that’s another 20 years. It has got to change and the only way that can happen is if people come forward with their stories and get the rest the community to show them that it is not acceptable in any community in any part of the world.

“The more these stories are told will make other victims come forward.”