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Propositioned

2004 Aged 15 My friend and I were walking to the cinema when an older man came running across the road to us and was asking what our names were, how old were we, where we were going. He was asking if we wanted to party, trying to get us to go with him back to his flat, said it was nearby...

Followed

2009 Aged 20, I was walking to work around mid morning when an older lad I’d never met before on bike started riding alongside me. He made sure to keep to my pace and rode very close, asking things like “so do you want to get it on or what?” He made me feel very uncomfortable as I didn’t...

Sexually assaulted

1998 Erin, aged 15 I was cleaning the bedrooms at the hotel where I worked and a stag party of around 11 men ran in the room and one of them threw me on the bed and started kissing me and putting his tongue in my mouth. He was trying to rip my tights at the crotch while all the guys stood...

Followed

1999 Roxanne, aged 12 A man in a black Corsa who lived near me had followed me on my walk to school, which had been for about a mile. He eventually rolled his window down and asked me to get in the car. I refused and he persisted, I eventually ran through a park so he couldn’t...

Public masturbation

2000 Roxanne, aged 13 I was walking to school, in uniform, and a man in a yellow Citroen Saxo kept driving past me, he stopped at the bus stop I was headed to and when I glanced in his car he had his trousers and underpants completely off and was masturbating. I was scared and walked...

Physical assault

2013 N, aged 22 Dancing on the dance floor a male came behind me and put his arms underneath mine and forcefully grabbed my breasts and squeezed very hard. I told police outside the venue who went inside to look to no avail. I logged a report with an officer the next day. CCTV was looked...

Physically abused

1985 Aged 20 I was a third year student nurse when a doctor on the ward used to make me stand next to him to hold equipment whilst he carried out procedures. He would then proceed to rub his crotch up against me as I stood their trapped, holding something important and therefore unable to...

Assaulted

2017 Aged 21 In a bar a man had a deflated blow up saxophone, he held both ends and kept looping it round me. I ducked out of it twice and he kept grabbing me and pulling me back. I gave in because he was hurting me. He kissed me. I tried to make eye contact with a staff member but...

Sexual assault

2016 Aged 19 I was walking behind my friends, a man grabbed me and held me against a wall by my neck. He was groping at my dress and trying to shove a hand underneath. My friend turned back and he released me and shoved me away. Guess he hadn’t realised I with people as slightly...

Physical assault

1983 Aged 17 I was walking to sixth form at about 8.30am. Two school age boys walking in the opposite direction stopped me and grabbed my breasts, then waked away laughing. I didn’t even think of reporting it to anyone, but I was really shaken and am still wary when passing groups...

Verbally abused

2019 Aged 53 I was walking home in the afternoon. Two teenage boys came out of Laine’s bakery eating pies and one threw a paper bag on the floor. I saw him do this, but didn’t say anything. He walked towards me, stood in front of me and just screamed in my face. I was too...

Physically assaulted

2019 Aged 53 I was physically grabbed by a man who was heavily under the influence of alcohol outside The Regent. On this occasion, it was raining, I had my umbrella up and didn’t see the man until he literally threw his arms around me and tried to drag me with him, saying...

Verbally abused

2019 Aged 53 I was walking away from town on my lunch break. A man walked out of Cash Converters looking at his phone and not looking at the street. I swerved to avoid bumping into him, but we bumped arms. I said something like “whoops” as it was no one’s fault –...