Karen Danczuk tried to kill herself after being raped by her paedophile brother

KAREN Danczuk revealed yesterday she tried to kill herself years after being raped by her paedophile brother.

The 33-year-old ex-wife of an MP, was attacked by Michael Burke when she was aged between nine and 11.

She said: “I wanted the pain to end and thought ending my life was the only way.

“I wouldn’t have to live with my horrible secret.

“I spent hours researching how to do it online.

“I’d hit rock bottom.

“I swallowed pills but would always end up throwing them up.”

Burke, 38, was convicted by a jury of raping her on Wednesday. He is facing a jail sentence.

Karen now says she may forgive him.

She said: “If he admitted what he did was wrong, that would help.

“But at the moment he is completely in denial.

“I’m hoping his time in jail will enable him to think about what he did and apologise.

“I’m not one to hold on to hate and anger.”

Karen says the childhood ordeal haunted her after she started a family with Labour MP Simon Danczuk, 50.

Now mum to Milton, eight, and Maurice, six, she said: “I couldn’t believe how small and precious my first born was.

“I suffered anxiety attacks and flashbacks about what happened when I was just a girl.”

She told Simon who persuaded her to get medical help.

Karen, of Rochdale, said: “When I came clean about my suicide attempts I was sectioned.”

But she fled before she could be treated.

She said: “That’s when I stopped being in denial.