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.
2022 Aged 22
I saw a guy put something in my drink. I told door staff and the manager – they just laughed at me.
2021 Aged 24
I was skateboarding with a group of friends on Comedy Carpet. A man walked straight up to me whilst exposing himself and masturbating. I was too shocked say anything at the time but it left me feeling extremely violated.
2022 Aged 26 I was enjoying a birthday night out with my friends. We went straight to the bar to order drinks and it was busy. A man at the bar started chatting with me. It seemed innocent enough, like friendly banter, so I thought nothing of it. I ordered two drinks, and while I was...
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...
2002 C, aged 24 I was working in a shop. When I went out onto the shop floor to tidy up, a group of drunk men came in and started making sexual comments to me and about me. As I turned to go back behind the counter one of them grabbed my vagina from behind, putting his hand right between...
2022 Aged 14
My 14-year-old daughter and her friends experienced an Asian male in his 40/50s pressing and rubbing his groin on them as they waited in a busy fast food restaurant on the promenade.