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...
2021 Aged 23
I was working in a bar and I was clearing glasses off a table when a man grabbed my bum, I told him “don’t touch me” and he told me I should be working across the street at the lap-dance bar instead.
2015 Age 41 I was in a bar with friends and I got talking to a male. He asked if I wanted to get a drink. We went to the bar and we got a drink which he paid for. We sat down at a table and were chatting. He showed me some pictures of his son on Facebook. The next thing I remember I was...
2011 Sam, age 21
I was dubious about a group of lads who were hovering around in the bar, I had my drink on the table, which was only my second, I do not remember anything after I had drunk that, I collapsed in the toilet, luckily I was with safe people who took me home.
2010 Sam, age 20 I was walking from the train station to near where Wilkinson’s was as a man drove around the one way system at the time, catcalling out of his van window, as he wasn’t paying attention he then drove into the railings and took his bumper off his van and hit the...
2016 Aged 42 I was walking my dog and a male was approaching me in the opposite direction to where I was walking. When he got passed me he turned round and started to follow me back up the street where he had come from. Luckily a couple had seen what he did and they decided to follow...
1999, age 10
I was in the queue in the shop and an old man lifted up the back of my school skirt with his walking stick.
2022 Sam, age 32
When entering work a Taxi driver drove past ogling with his head out of the window.
2014 Aviel, aged 21 In a nightclub a clearly quite drunk man asked me to dance with him, which I declined and continued dancing on my own. He has then come up behind me and grabbed both my shoulders very firmly and said in my ear ‘do you think you’re better than me!’ He...
2005 Aged 13
While on my paper round posting a paper a man pulled up at the house and wound down his window. He asked how much money I make and then asked me if I wanted to make £20 in 5 minutes. This was at around 7am not yet fully light.