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Propositioned

1995 Aged 17 Walking home in the early hours from a friends house, a car containing three men pulled up beside me and the man in the passenger seat asked if I was out on my own at night for a reason. I ignored the car and walked faster, and the car followed me. The man offered me money if...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1997 Lindsay, aged 21 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1996 Lindsay, aged 20 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1995 Lindsay, aged 19 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1994 Lindsay, aged 18 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1993 Lindsay, aged 17 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1992 Lindsay, aged 16 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Followed

Kate Doran, aged 15 On two separate occasions as a young teen I was followed by a man in a van (two different occasions with two different men). They attempted to chat to me while driving along side me from the Highfield Rd area towards my home at the time off Arnold Ave, asking for...

Followed

Kate Doran, aged 13 On two separate occasions as a young teen I was followed by a man in a van (two different occasions with two different men). They attempted to chat to me while driving along side me from the Highfield Rd area towards my home at the time off Arnold Ave, asking for...

Sexual assault

2009 Kate Doran, aged 27 After dropping my daughter off at school in the morning I went to the bus stop to get the bus home. I was dressed in leggings and a baggy jumper and coat. I had headphone in and was looking at my phone, something I do to discourage unwanted male conversations. A...

Indecent exposure

2005 Age 14 In the middle of the day I got on the number 14 bus on the way home from school with two of my friends. We went upstairs on our own where a much older man was sat on his own. He was staring at us and started masturbating. At the time we thought it was quite funny because we...

Followed

2004 Aishley, aged 16 I was in town in my school uniform, it was dark in winter and the shops had closed, I was waiting to be picked up by my mum. A man followed me through town. I started to take strange routes to lose him but he followed me everywhere. I went into a phone box to pretend...

Followed and approached

2004 Aishley, aged 16 Walking home from school I was followed by a man most of the way home. He eventually caught up to me and put his hand on my arm to stop me. He asked me if I wanted to go for a drink with him and when i said that my parents were waiting for me he became irritable and...

Followed home

2018 Lucy, aged 12

I was walking home from school when my step dad stopped and confronted a man who he’d watched following me whilst he was himself driving home.