When Kathryn Heyman was traumatised and needing to escape, a fishing trawler offered her the hope of salvation

Kathryn Heyman desperately needed to escape.

With single-minded determination, and barely out of her teens, she headed as far from her city, Sydney, as she could, arriving at the tip of the Northern Territory.

She says her propulsion to flee was like that of “a wild animal”.

But arriving at her…