Aged 31 2023 Out with my wonderful friends, dancing and a guy grabbed my friend’s arse. She told him to leave her alone. He then made a grinding motion behind me. We moved away from him and informed one of the male bouncers who said he would keep an eye on him. The bouncer, we feel...
Aged 40 2023 In a group of four friends, all in our 40s, we went to ***** for a dance. Immediately we were swarmed by different men older than us who kept trying to dance, grind etc. We told them to back off but they kept coming, it was incredibly intimidating and the bouncers just...
Aged 13 2012 I was 13 at a friend’s birthday party and a few of us left to drink alcohol on the nearby park. I was so drunk I could barely stand and remember falling asleep/passing out not long before. My ‘boyfriend’ at the time, whom I’d been with a few weeks, took me off into the trees...
Aged 24 2023 A group of men were walking past me at the bottom of the street and one of them stopped to watch me until I reached him. I carried on walking and they all started laughing as he made jokes about just wanting to watch the nice view and liking the view etc. They all watched me...
Scarlett, Aged 17 2017 I was hanging out with two “friends” in Ashton Gardens at around 10 at night. One of them needed to get on the bus home back to Blackpool and the other said he would wait and walk me back home and then go get the bus. After dropping the first friend at the bus stop...
Scarlett, Aged 17 Halloween, 2016 I went to meet a friend that I went to school with at a party on Halloween night. I went to have a drink and I only had about three sips and started feeling really strange, blurred vision, couldn’t really understand what anyone was saying to me and then 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...
AI, Aged 18
A man sat next to me on the bus touched and touched my leg.
SSP, Aged 17 1993 After a night out – I was unable to stay at my friends house as planned. So her male “friend” took me to a hotel on New South Promenade, once I was there, he took me to an empty bedroom told me that I could lie down and he would get into bed with me. He was a lot...
Aged 19 2013 I worked as bad staff at xxx Bar and we had to wear T shirts with a brand of cider on that we sold. I asked a guy what he wanted to drink. He said, ‘a pint of this’ and dragged his finger across the front of my T shirt where the logo was, over my chest. I was too shocked to...
2015 Aged 21 This would’ve been one of many similar incidents – a lad casually groped my arse as he walked through a crowd of people, thinking I wouldn’t see who did it. I yelled at him and he just laughed straight in my face. Can’t count how many times things like that have...
Aged 28 2022 I was out with a friend around Christmas time. We were pretty drunk, but not drunk enough not to be fully aware of our surroundings. We ordered and drank a couple of drinks. I’ve always been super aware of where my drink is on nights out and how I’m holding it, because so...
Danielle, Aged 16/17 1997/1998 I used to work in a sport shop/sports stall. I was invited out with an older lady for drinks, whilst I was under age, on a night out straight from work. We went to a rave night at a club above the *** pub. I remember I was dancing and I saw my college...
Danielle, Aged 14 1995 I might have finished athletics training and had been roller blading with friends and was on my way past Stanley Park front gates and I was called over by **** so I stopped to say hi, because he was a familiar face, a lad whom I knew. We chatted a couple of minutes...
Aged 13 2018 I went to the slope where the claw machines were because I couldn’t find the friends I came with after coming out the bathroom and stopped near the end of the slope. A man whose face I never saw bumped into me, grabbed my chest/boobs hard before walking away without saying...