3 WEEKS AGO One-armed Gillian says: I've quit vice YESTERDAY Back on street where she was grabbed; EXCLUSIVE Prostitute maimed in attack offers Record reporter sex.

Byline: By Derek Alexander

A PROSTITUTE who had her arm ripped off in a savage attack has returned to work as a vice girl.

Gillian Gilchrist, 29, is offering sex from the exact spot where she was picked up by the brute dubbed the M8 Ripper.

Drug addict Gillian lost part of her left arm when she was thrown from a punter's moving car less than a month ago.

Tragic Gillian and her boyfriend James McGeough, 32, vowed that she'd give up working in Glasgow's notorious red-light district.

But the Record tracked the pair down to Holm Street early yesterday.

And it was business as usual for Gillian, who offered our reporter a range of sexual services while James watched from across the street.

Our man declined the offer and walked away from Gillian, who was covering up her maimed arm with a jacket.

Red-light sources say she started working as a prostitute again last weekend.

Twenty-six days ago, she was pushed from a car by a knife-wielding maniac who then reversed over her near Arkleston Cemetery, on the outskirts of Glasgow.

Part of her arm was ripped off in the ordeal and she staggered in agony through a field to wave down drivers on the M8 for help.

Other prostitutes working in Glasgow's red-light area were shocked to see Gillian back working again.

One said: "No one can quite believe that she's back on the streets.

"It's even harder to believe that she returned to the street where the attacker picked her up.

"What happened to Gillian gave all the girls a real fright. We were all wondering who was going to be next.

"It reminded everyone of how dangerous this job can be and we thought it would make Gillian get the help she needed to quit drugs and prostitution.

"She's probably still attending hospital for treatment and her arm is still in bandages.

"She's obviously working to feed her own drug habit as well as her boyfriend's.

"But if what happened to her hasn't been enough to make her get off drugs and stop working as a prostitute, then nothing will. It's tragic."

Gillian told the Record last month that she feared her attacker was going to kill her.

She said the man approached her in the street and she agreed to go with him in his car.

The next thing she remembers is being pushed from his moving vehicle on Arkleston Road, between Glasgow and Paisley, and being run over.

She said at the time: "I remember falling from the car but not much else about how it happened.

"I'm not sure about the time and how long I was there.

"It's all mixed-up. I must have blacked out.

"I could see lights ahead of me and I just wanted to get there, to get help.

"I didn't know if I would make it. I remember I kept collapsing.

"I thought I was going to die. I didn't know I had lost part of my arm and had left it on the road.

"The only thing I remember after that was when I was in hospital, where they told me what had happened.

"It is all a bit hazy because of the drugs. But I'm sure he wanted to kill me."

Gillian, who has been a prostitute since she was 15, added: "I know I could never do this kind of work ever again.

"It is going to be hard to go straight but I need to do it."

Boyfriend James backed her up, saying: "Gillian will never work the streets again. Me and her family will make sure of that."

Police are still investigating the attack and appealing for witnesses.

When our photographer snapped Gillian plying her trade, she started screaming abuse.

Boyfriend James then approached the car and shouted: "F*** off. You're a couple of bams."

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TRAGIC: Gillian and her boyfriend after the attack