Bystander account by Paul Maynard MP 9/12/2022 I attended the Reclaim the Night march as I believe it is important that everyone can enjoy a night out without fear of intimidation and harassment. The second instance of catcalling I witnessed was on passing Ma Kelly’s where an older...
Bystander account by Paul Maynard MP 9/12/2022 I attended the Reclaim the Night march as I believe it is important that everyone can enjoy a night out without fear of intimidation and harassment. Because I was coming to join a bit late from another event, I had almost caught up the march...
2022 Aged 36 On Thursday 1st December me and a friend were having a drink in a local bar. I went to the toilet while she got the drinks and when I came back she was having an animated conversation with a guy at the bar and the barmaid. It sounded friendly enough and I didn’t think...
2022 Aged 25 I was waiting at the bar for a drink, it was a busy event. An older man was waiting in the queue behind me and asked me if I was ‘from here’ and why I looked so miserable, and I told him I was just waiting for a drink and then turned back around to face the bar...
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...
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…...
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...
2006 Aged 25 Leaving a night club two men harassed us to go home with them. We said no and jumped into a taxi. Then one man got in the front and the other tried to open the back door. We told the taxi driver we don’t know them. So he asked them to get out. The taxi driver unlocked the...
2014 Aviel, aged 21 In a nightclub a clearly quite drunk man asked me to dance with him, which I declined and continued dancing on my own. He has then come up behind me and grabbed both my shoulders very firmly and said in my ear ‘do you think you’re better than me!’ He...
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.
2010 June Stewart, aged 52
Filling in on behalf of my mum who was robbed at knifepoint at approx 2pm in broad daylight for £20 the man has never been caught.
1998 Age 12
My first memory of street harassment around the time I was first allowed to go out alone, by tradesmen working on a construction site while I walked to meet a friend.
2020 Angela, age 65 I had been to a concert, Evelyn Glynnie at the Marine Hall in Fleetwood with a couple of my choir members. Afterwards we went to a pub in in Cleveleys where one of the party was trying to talk me into going with one of his friends to his carpet shop for sex. I had...