RAPE victim Tracie Wainwright today waives her right to anonymity - saying she wants to put the horror of the past behind her.

The young mum is trying to rebuild her life - but her hopes of a fresh start were wrecked after she was twice targeted by burglars.

Tracie, 24, moved to a new area to escape the memories of being beaten and raped in her bedroom by Newport sex beast Carl Ball.

In December 2001 Ball was jailed for ten years for raping and indecently assaulting Tracie and a teenager in December 2000.

Tracie endured a two-year wait until she was moved to her new Caldicot home last November. She told the Argus: "I am fed up with hiding. Why should I hide? People don't need to whisper about me any more.

"I was over the moon at first to move here. I felt I could start a new life with my children - it even had a garden for them to play in."

But on Monday morning her house was burgled, and a camcorder, games console, DVDs, jewellery and cash, totalling £2,300, were stolen. Two weeks earlier, £100 in cash was stolen.

The burglaries also mean she can no longer get contents insurance for her home. "It's been destroyed by crime," she said. "I want to get away but I don't know where else I can go."

Tracie, who has daughters, Shannon, six, and Kiera, eight months, said: "I was devastated and really gutted by the latest burglary.

"I sat down and cried. It took me a long time to get these things. I bought the camcorder to record the kids growing up.

"It had a recording of my Shannon's birthday party. "And I am disgusted no one will give me insurance. I have rung quite a few but was told I am at high risk and not worth the companies' risk."

The mum, on sickness benefit after her nightmare ordeal, added: "I'm too scared to leave my house in case it gets burgled again.

"I want people to be aware of the number of burglaries going on."

Police arrested a local man on Mon-day and charged him with burglary.

PICTURED: Tracie Wainwright and her daughter Shannon.