Four decades is a long time to wait for justice to be served. But that’s the gift soapie star Madeleine West is cherishing this Christmas.

West, a former Neighbours star, took to Instagram to identify herself as a child sex victim, and to tell the world that her tormentor would now be jailed.

“Today’s ruling is the best Christmas present we could wish for,’’ she told her followers.

“It took 40 years to be delivered but now it’s here. It’s just a pittance compared to the life sentence served by victims of childhood sexual assault.’’

But it demonstrated that “victim survivors are not alone, it was never our fault, we aren’t broken and that #justice is possible’’.

It’s hard to underestimate the power in that message. A mature woman, who for decades has carried a trauma that no child should carry.

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