Juliana tells me that every time she tried to interrupt up with Greliak, he would persuade her to offer him one other probability. “He was a grasp manipulator,” she explains. “I’d block him. He would get one other quantity. He would present up at my home. It was just about harassment to the purpose the place he remoted me from my associates.”
Ultimately, in December 2019, Greliak moved in with Juliana. Whereas she hoped letting him transfer in would calm their relationship, issues bought dramatically worse.
“He satisfied me to document us having consensual intercourse, which I used to be fully in opposition to,” she says. However he continued to insist. At some point, he prompt filming it on Juliana’s pc so nobody else might entry it. She reluctantly agreed. He additionally recorded a video of Juliana after giving her “an enormous quantity” of ketamine. “I did not even know what ketamine was on the time,” she displays.
“Within the video, he says: ‘You are in a state the place somebody might rob you or rape you and also you would not even know,’” Juliana tells me. “He thought it was humorous to ‘torture’ me by telling me to get up as I used to be late for a gathering – I’d get up terrified and he laughed saying, ‘I discovered the issues your physique is afraid of’.
“The following morning, he recorded himself assaulting me; then he recorded himself waking me up and displaying me the video to see my response,” says Juliana. She had no reminiscence of the assault – largely as a result of ketamine in her system and the truth that she was asleep. The video remained on her pc, unwatched.
A month later, Juliana found that Greliak had stolen £300 from her PayPal account. This marked a turning level. “It hit me that he wasn’t an excellent particular person. I could not belief him,” she says, including, “abusers function in a approach the place they’re very gradual of their acts… you possibly can’t discover this till you are entrapped.”
After that, Juliana kicked Greliak out of her condominium. Later the identical evening, she says, he messaged her asking for her dad’s cellular quantity underneath the guise of desirous to ship him a video for his eightieth birthday. “That is after I remembered there was a video,” she says. “I discovered it on my pc. I used to be in full shock. I knew he was blackmailing me. He by no means even met or spoke with my father. He knew I used to be very near him.”
The video was eight minutes lengthy. “I’m unconscious in it,” Juliana explains. “I am tied up. You possibly can hear him say within the video, ‘I am fully raping you whilst you’re asleep and unconscious and making a video of it as effectively’.”
Greliak was arrested and charged with sexual assault on the eighth of March 2020, which is his birthday and likewise, as Juliania notes, Worldwide Ladies’s Day. “Poetic justice, I suppose,” she says.
Juliana’s aid was fleeting. A month after his arrest, Greliak was bailed. “I might thought that when he was arrested, I might transfer on with my life. However when he was bailed, I needed to transfer to a different condominium; I did not really feel protected the place I used to be.”
Greliak was arrested twice for breaching his bail situations.
In 2021, throughout the lead-up to and through Greliak’s trial, Juliana was extremely distressed. Whereas he’d initially been charged with sexual assault by digital penetration, she later found that he’d additionally raped her.
“I used to be making ready to write down my sufferer’s private assertion and was reviewing all of the movies. In one of many movies, he admitted to raping me in addition to the sexual assault. He laughed as he described how I wakened throughout it. Within the video, he seems for the video of the rape to play it to me however realises he should’ve not recorded it. That is after I realised he had, in reality, raped me, and I despatched the video proof to the police.
