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Sexual assault

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...

Verbal abuse/followed

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...

Followed/harassed

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...

Harassed

2011 Aged 14 I normally went to the skate park with a group of friends, but this time all my friends wanted to stay in but I wanted to skate. I got the bus to the skate park and had a nice skate for 15 minutes, until an older male started to follow me around the skate park. He started by...

Catcalled

2023 Jen, aged 37 Whilst out running along Moor Park Avenue man in a van catcalled to me as I was running. When I got around to Bristol Avenue the same man slowed down his van to shout (what he thought were helpful) tips to me about how to lose weight, how to run better blah blah blah. He...

Followed

2023 Aged 30

A man filmed me from his car walking across the car park on my walk home. He then followed me in his car and started beeping. Luckily I got a lift the rest of the journey home.

Verbally harassed/followed

2011 Aged 21 I was walking to work around 6pm during an icy, dark winter. I thought I was alone but realised a much older man was following me. He started shouting sexually explicit things and speeding up behind me. It was to icy for me to run but luckily someone came walking towards us...

Catcalled/followed

2022 C, aged 41 I was walking into town yesterday morning (Wednesday 30th November) for a meeting, when a man aged about 30 started shouting after me. I kept walking as I didn’t know him and I just felt something was ‘off’. He got closer and he was calling “Hello...

Harassed

2021 Sophie, aged 23 I was riding my bike down Dickson Road and a man on a bike followed me about 100 metres on his bike. I tried to speed up but not make it obvious but he did speed up and slowed slightly riding in front of me so I couldnt go any faster and started the questions…...

Followed

2011 Aged 15 I was walking through the park to meet with some friends at Salisbury Woodlands at around 5pm; it was golden hour so there was still plenty of daylight but the park was quiet. An older man (maybe mid-30s) was walking towards the main gate in the opposite direction to me and...

Followed

2016 Aged 42 I was walking my dog and a male was approaching me in the opposite direction to where I was walking. When he got passed me he turned round and started to follow me back up the street where he had come from. Luckily a couple had seen what he did and they decided to follow...

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 like “so do you want to get it on or what?” He made me feel very uncomfortable as I didn’t...

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 car. I refused and he persisted, I eventually ran through a park so he couldn’t...

Followed

2017 Aged 27 At Houndshill Shopping Centre I was followed for at least 10 minutes by a man who did not try to hide what he was doing. He sped up and slowed down when I did, he took every turn and entered every shop I did. My fear and panic clouded everything and even in a shopping centre...