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...
2019 Aged 39 Upon walking into the bar a group of men thought it was appropriate to comment on me and my partner sexually. They made explicit jokes “you just need a good ****” not in a funny way that can be passed off – it was aggressive. It felt like if we didn’t leave we would get hurt...
2019 Aged 32 Stood at the bar and a man put his hand down my top and grabbed my breast. My partner informed the door staff and he was just asked to leave. The following day we did report it to the company but they just said “we will follow it up with door staff”. We have never returned to...
2019 Aged 29 I was dancing with my friends when all of a sudden a felt someone’s hand touch me between my legs from behind. When I turned around I saw a guy walking off and his friend came over. He said, ‘sorry he’s drunk.’ I replied ‘so that makes it ok for him to touch me?’ His friend...
2012 CS, aged 11
I was held down and raped at knifepoint.
2012 Aged 35 As I walked down the stairs in a bar a younger man passed me, walking up the stairs. As he passed me, he put his hand straight up my skirt and touch my vagina quite forcefully. My skirt wasnt excessively short, only slightly above the knee. Even if it had been shorter, I have...
1995 Beckie, aged 18 Awaiting my usual bus home to Fleetwood (my boyfriend unable to walk me to the bus this one occasion) a man in shorts and t shirt arrived in the shelter and after around a minute gathered my attention by asking “Do you think I’ll pull tonight love?”. Not really...
2016, H, Aged 21
I was touched up in public against my will on my chest and down below by my now ex thought it would be enjoyable to do it in public. I slapped him in the face for doing then ran into the shop in the Hounds Hill and asked if I could hide till he went away.
1992, C, aged 14 A fire engine went past as I was walking past Bispham Police Station, and the firemen were hanging out of the windows shouting things like ‘Nice tits!’ and ‘You in the black dress, want a shag?’. They drove around the roundabout twice to make sure...
2015, aged 19 I was walking to the bar through a group of older men when I felt someone grabbing my arse. I turned around and couldn’t identify which person did it but the group were all smiling and laughing. I told my boyfriend at the time and he told me there was nothing he could...
1993, Kat, aged 13 I’d come into town after school with friends. I was 13 and wearing my school uniform. We got off the bus at the old bus station and were walking up Talbot Road in a row of three. I was on one of the ends. I looked up and saw a scruffy man coming towards us. I caught his...
2014, aged 12 I was walking from my high school to my younger sibling’s school. A boy from another school, about 16 years old, pushed me against a wall, groped my breast and asked what time my legs opened for him. One of his mates pushed him off me laughing calling him a “dick head”...
1983, Suzanne Pinder, aged 17 I was waiting for a bus about to start a school holiday job at the Wimpy in town, it was about 9am. There is a house that has a large window overlooking the bus stop. I heard a loud banging sound, looked up and there was a man knocking on the window to...
1995, LG, aged 11 During the summer my friend and I used to go to the park to play tennis on the tennis courts in the evening. Our parents were letting us have a bit more freedom at that age and it was a big deal. We felt very grown up. About half an hour into the game my friend stopped...
2015, PB, aged 15 I was walking home alone after an afternoon at the sandcastle, it was still light and busy out so I hadn’t thought it necessary to call my mum for a lift. A group of men walking behind me began talking inappropriately about me – about my bum and what...