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Grabbed

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.

Spiked

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...

Spiked

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. 

Catcalled

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...

Followed

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...

Harassed and assaulted

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...

Propositioned

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. 

Sexually harassed 

1981 Aged 7  My mum and I used to walk down a back alley to get from where Burtons Biscuits is to my junior school, a path walked by lots of families and school children. On this particular afternoon, I ran ahead a little where a high school male with a group of friends grabbed me, held...

Spiked

2021 L, aged 34 In a bar in a group of three. We put our drinks on a shelf which was on the edge of a balcony near the front door. I had turned to my friends and said I would wait with the drinks so they could have a dance. As I turned back to the drinks a man was leaning over and putting...

Propositioned

2019 Aged 52

A couple of times I got approached for business as if I was a prostitute by men and women while waiting at Palatine Road and Central Drive bus stop

Catcalled

2021 Elizabeth Wilkinson, aged 42 

I walked along the street at 12 noon on a Monday, and a car pulled up alongside me and a man leaned out and shouted “Give us a blowie!”