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...
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...
2004-2020
Aged 15-31
[In a public building] Groomed from being 15 and coercive controlled and sexually harassed thereafter by the same person.
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...
2008 Aged 26 I was making the short walk to my car after my night shift working behind a bar. There were very few people still around and it was a very cold winter night so I was wrapped up in my winter coat, scarf and woolly hat and walking very briskly towards where I was parked. An...
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...
2022 Aged 17 I was walking home with dinner in my hand. When I was crossing the road a man walked passed me and said I had ‘beautiful knockers on my chest’. I continued home concerned and then I noticed 3 separate men in different cars looking at me up and down and whistling. I was only...
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…...
2001 Aged 13
Waiting for the bus with friends and a man starting shouting things at us, asking if we wanted it. He was wearing a kilt and just got everything out and shook it at us. He walked away laughing.