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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.

Touched up

2019 Hollie Hulme, aged 32

I was stood at the bar ordering drinks when a stranger groped my bum whilst laughing with his mates.

Verbally abused and not helped by bouncers

2019 Aged 23 I was walking home from work late at night when a man started shouting at me aggressively, we were both on the other side of the road from the Belle Vue pub. He was clearly intoxicated. I crossed the road and asked the bouncers if I could go into the Belle Vue to use the C...

Propositioned by paedophiles

2011 Aged 15

I was babysitting two girls roughly between the ages of 8-10 when a man in a car pulled over to the pavement and asked the younger girls if they wanted to have sex. I immediately shouted at him and took them both into the nearest shop to get away from the man.

Asked to get inside a man’s car

2001 Aged 5 I was outside Tescos with my mum and a man we did not know in a car pulled up and kept insisting that he wanted to drive us home. My mum told him to go away and he eventually did. We only lived 5 minutes away but ended up walking in the opposite direction and taking a longer...

Confronted by group of paedophiles

2010 Aged 14 While sat at a tram stop opposite the Tower, a group of men on a stag do approached me and asked me to have sex with me/take me back to their hotel room. I told them I was a child and they said “even better”. I usually used to wear a full face of makeup, but that...

Groomed

2000 Jen, Aged 13/14 

A 28-year-old man who worked at the Pleasure Beach took advantage of a desperately lonely teenager.

Verbally abused

2021 Age 34 I noticed the man looking at me in Iceland. Once we were out the shop he went to his van as I began to walk down the street. The man was driving in the van and slowing as I was walking toward the van in the opposite of the road. He carried on looking at me and I stuck my...

Verbally abused

2021 Age 34

Walking down the road two men pulled over in a van and asked me where I was going. I told them I wasn’t willing to talk and they began to speak aggressively. I wanted to turn and walk away from the traffic however luckily they drove away.