Bella, aged 19 2019 After arguing with my boyfriend on a night out he left me crying in the street. About two minutes later a group of five lads all crowded around me, berating me and making fun of me. When I walked away they all followed me my entire walk home taking pictures of me...
Aged 17
2023
A guy followed me to the corner shop before work. Later that day after work I was wold whistled by another guy.
Aged 23 10th August 2023 I was out with a friend in St Anne’s, upon walking back to her car around 23:10 there was a man in the bus shelter near Costa wearing a red top. He finished of a pint of beer and threw his glass in the bush next to it, he then turned around and had some...
C, aged 32 2023 I was driving home when another vehicle cut me up at the Oxford junction. I pressed my horn as I slammed on my car brakes. The male driver of the other vehicle waved and made hand gestures at me. I continued my route home which happened to be behind this vehicle. The...
Aged 40, 2001
I was walking home at midnight when a man drove past me. He then turned round and passed me the other way, slowing down and staring at me. He proceeded to do this several times for the length of the road between the airport and the Halfway House.
Aged 25 27th April 2023 A friend and I were walking through town with our skateboards talking to each other, a man approached us loudly asking why we weren’t riding our skateboards, asking us to do tricks for him, and if we can ollie, he followed us to church street until he became...
Aishley 25th April 2023 I was walking down the lower promenade mid morning in daylight. Occasionally stopping to take a photo or a video I noticed a man ahead who kept looking back at me, had slowed his pace down and I found it uncomfortable as my gut told me he was hanging back to talk...
Ali, aged 25 27th April 2023 I parked my car on Queen Street, ironically to go and record an interview with BBC Northwest about the Reclaim Blackpool Map. When I was getting my skateboard out of my car a man approached me asking to ‘have a go’ on my skateboard & asking me what my name...
2021 I was walking past Aldi at the end of Whitegate drive in winter 2021 and I’ll never ever forget it!! The corner of Aldi, behind Greggs, it was about nine at night and I had my earphones in. A man stopped in front of me as I went to pass him. I went to walk past but he stood in my way...
Jasmine, aged 19 2020 A guy started following me in his car, he pulled over a few times trying to get my attention, he yelled some pretty gross stuff at me. At the junction on central drive, he got out of his car and started approaching me, he was masturbating under his pants and I...
Scarlett, Aged 23, 2023 I was picking up my son, who was 1 1/2 and in a pram, from childcare. We were walking down Penrose Avenue towards Vicarage Lane, and were approached by a guy on a bike in a full balaclava. I didn’t wanna look him in the eye because he immediately made me feel...
10/2/2023 Bystander account As I drove into Sainsbury’s car park I noticed shouting. I parked opposite a car with a male half in half out the passenger door and I heard the female driver saying “leave me alone”. At this I went over to the car and asked if the female if...
2012, aged 18 There was a boy who had been making inappropriate comments for a while and ignored my requests to stop. We sat near each other in class and so it was very awkward and uncomfortable. I left class to go to the toilet and he followed me and cornered me. He then tried to touch...
01/02/2023 Aged 13 My friend invited me to town but to my surprise once we arrived two 17 year olds came up to us and one of them hugged my friend. She explained to me how it is her boyfriend who her parents don’t want her seeing because, for one he handles with drugs and two, for the...
3 November 2022Aged 18 I met a man who introduced himself to me as Adam (although this might be a fake name), at a Halloween themed event in Blackpool. We exchanged phone numbers and I gave him my name, and after that I thought I’d seen the last of him. I was quite confident that I...