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Propositioned

2019 Aged 52

A couple of times I got approached for business as if I was a prostitute by men and women while waiting at Palatine Road and Central Drive bus stop

Catcalled

2021 Elizabeth Wilkinson, aged 42 

I walked along the street at 12 noon on a Monday, and a car pulled up alongside me and a man leaned out and shouted “Give us a blowie!” 

Harassed

2021Aged 16

A man aged 60+ sat as close as he could to my granddaughter (16 y/o) at a bus-stop and discussed virtual sites where people have virtual sex and encouraging her to get on there.

Catcalled

2004 B, aged 21 Walking home from the shops heavily pregnant, a man slowed down his truck, leaned out the window and heckled me shouting, “Oi love, yes you, show us your tits”. I stood...

Verbally bullied

1993-1999 B, aged 11-16

I use to be called every day Becky big tits, by boys in school and it made me feel uncomfortable and self conscious about what I was wearing. 

Indecent exposure

1994 B, aged 11 On the way home from school, a man use to watch my friends and I. Sometimes he would knock on the window, other times he would just stand there. A couple of months went by and he...

Verbally abused

1999 B, age 16 I went to a local shop and was asked by the man behind the counter if I wanted to sit on his fingers and swivel. I didn’t know what to say at the time and my friends just laughed...

Cornered

1995 B, aged 12 I was on the park with boys who I went to school with and who I thought were my friends. They cornered me in a metal tube on the park and tried to lift my top up and touch me. I...

Verbally abused

1997 B, aged 14 My friends and I use to hang around the front of the school and the postman used to come on the school grounds around the same time of first break every day. Over about a month he...

Catcalled

2021 Aged 42

Standing huddled up in the cold with my book, a man on a moped rode past yelling “Oi Oi!” at me

Propositioned

2004 Aged 15 My friend and I were walking to the cinema when an older man came running across the road to us and was asking what our names were, how old were we, where we were going. He was asking if...

Followed

2009 Aged 20, I was walking to work around mid morning when an older lad I’d never met before on bike started riding alongside me. He made sure to keep to my pace and rode very close, asking things...

Sexually assaulted

1998 Erin, aged 15 I was cleaning the bedrooms at the hotel where I worked and a stag party of around 11 men ran in the room and one of them threw me on the bed and started kissing me and putting his...

Followed

1999 Roxanne, aged 12 A man in a black Corsa who lived near me had followed me on my walk to school, which had been for about a mile. He eventually rolled his window down and asked me to get in the...