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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.

Physically assaulted

2004 Age 14/15 I was cycling to Asda, in broad daylight, wearing a vest top as it warm, I cycled towards two men and realised they were looking at my chest, they crossed the road and blocked my path forcing me to cycle through me as one of them grabbed my breast, I carried on and went to...

Phone harassment

1997 Age 16 Was volunteering in a charity shop for D of E. A man came into the shop and kept staring at me and persistently trying to speak to me. About 20 mins later, there was a phone call for me. The same man had gone out to one of the phone boxes on Abingdon St and (remembering my...

Grabbed my hair

2019 Aged 32

Leaving the pub relatively early after one quiet drink, a man I was passing grabbed my hair saying “let me feel your wig”.