2022 Ava, aged 21 I’m a very androgynous person… I was wearing a head to toe pink, very alternative/really cool outfit. A group of scruffy boys walked past and started shouting to each other “it’s a boy hahaha, bro it’s literally a boy”. When I am in fact literally a girl, bro. Even if I...
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...
SSP, aged 26 I was out having a weekend drink with friends. Whilst stood at the bar ordering a drink a guy walked straight up to me and put his hand up my skirt. I shouted at him “Get off me!” He smiled and just went back to stand with his mates. I told the barman who did nothing to help...
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...
2016 Aged 18 I was in a bar in with friends and this man started talking to me, I was polite to him and chatted back for a bit but I wasn’t interested. He started being overly flirtatious and really touchy feely. When I think about it I would be horrified now if someone was acting like...
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...
1988 Aged 15 I went into town to watch Rattle and Hum at the ABC cinema. I got there early on the bus so was walking along Church St quite slowly, on my own, killing a bit of time. A youngish man came up to me, quite agitated, and asked if I’d have sex with him. I was so shocked...
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.
2022 Aged 26
A man walked to the toilet and grabbed my breast as he walked past. He laughed in my face at my reaction but the bouncers dealt with him extremely well.
2021 I was made by by employer to walk through town at night to hand deliver a letter with no way of alerting anybody if I was being attacked. I am a survivor of domestic violence, rape and attempted murder and told her this. I felt I had no choice and my request to stay online while I...
2022 Aged 24
A drunk man in his late 20s put hand up my skirt when I was out with my friends.
2022 Aged 25
Whilst on a night out I was consistently touched by a man at the bar. After several advances he put his hand up my skirt. He was removed once the bouncers had been informed but I was left stuck inside as he refused to move away from the outside of the venue.
2012 Natalie McCullagh, Aged 22 I worked at a bar and girls (never the lads) would sometimes be asked to go out and sell jagerbombs to customers on the floor. Most of the younger girls didn’t like to do it due to the creepy men making comments or touching them. I offered to take it...
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...
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...