13th March 2006

Hi this is Judith. We are so grateful to soas and every one of you who have been speaking up on our behalf. We have had such a week- it’s been really very mixed, more down than up. Well at the moment I just don’t have time to feel sorry for myself; I have to be up for Mariah. So is so very down lately, asking me questions which I can’t answer at the moment. She’s asking me why, in our short lives, we have gone through so much of this; it’s equivalent to something some people go through in their lifetime, not in 2 years. We have been in detention for 7 months in the last 2 years. She just can’t bring herself eat, she is still crying and she just feels really tired. Yesterday she told me something strange, she was feeling a strange pain around her heart and she said when she stretched she felt like something might break. maybe that’s how people get heart attacks, but I didn’t want to think about it. But she said that can’t be right because she is only twenty. But it’s things like that that really worry you. We just hope that things will be ok. We received two calls today from , which is a great help. You get to hear about what is happening outside and it gives you the strength to carry on, to be honest. It makes you feel loved and treasured, irrespective of being here. We just can’t thank every one of you enough for everything you are doing to support our cause. Thank you so much.