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Catcalled

RK, Aged 14 2006/7 Builders were working on the school on Church Street leading up to the Blue Room and I was walking into town to meet friends. I’ve always had a big chest and as they were high up they were staring down my top and shouting things about my chest and asking me to go...

Assault

RK, Aged 19 2011 I was dancing with my friends when a man approached me and said “sorry this was a dare” and proceeded to “motorboat me” and then walked away. I was so shocked that I just froze, and had no idea what to do until my friends pointed out that this had...

Catcalled and chased

Aged 15 2022 When I was walking to my boyfriend’s house for the first time a man with his top off on a bike started to look at me across the road smiling. I smiled back but he must have taken that for something else and he rode his bike behind me for a minute and then went in front...

Sexual assault

Aged 25 5th May 2024 I was sexually assaulted by a farmer at 3.30pm. I was outside a shop in the town centre transferring money to buy some sunglasses and as he walked past me he grabbed my ass. He then squeezed the tummy of a woman behind me as he passed her. I feel angry as a 25 year...

Catcalled

Jess, Aged 18

2024

Followed around the shop by male farmers during farmers’ weekend. Made comments about my hair and my body asking if I’d like “a go”.

Followed

2024

Aged 24

I was in a big group if girls and this guy was walking uncomfortably close to us. When we stopped he continued for a bit and then turned back around. We ended up losing him by going in a shop.

Verbal abuse

Iz, aged 23 20th April 2024 I got out of a taxi with my partner. A group of men were walking past. One man was particularly loud, he walked in front of me and my partner, shouting at me about how I had ‘got my tits out’. He kept coming towards me until I had to physically push him away...

Groped

6th April 2024 Rosie Jones, aged 31 I entered the cafe with my 2 year old and husband. The person who touched me was talking to the women behind the counter he then turned to leave walking towards where I was stood. He raised his hand and I wrongly assumed he was going to place it on my...

Groped

2016

Aged 15

I was in a club for someone’s 18th and a boy I knew who was also 18 would keep coming up to me and my friends and groping us from behind.

Spiked/verbally abused

Aged 16 2017 My younger male friend was (thankfully) walking me home through Hope Street Park in the later evening. We saw an older man in the middle of the park must’ve been late 30s at the time with a girl who I knew and was 16. He was stood over her and she was almost unconscious on...

Spiked

Kylie Aged 18 2016 My drink had been spiked and I could barely even hold my own head up, was vomiting down myself and was slumped over a table. Rather than helping me or seeing if they could check CCTV to see who had done it, they grabbed me by my wrists and carried me out of the club...

Catcalled

Jessica Aged 26 I walked past a building site (scaffolding on a house) and one of the scaffolders shouted “you alright you love? I could do with a woman like you on this building site.” It instantly killed my mood. I was just trying to walk to school to pick up my son. Things like this...

Assault

Aged 22 2024 I was stood at the bar ordering a drink whilst my friends were sat at a table not too far away. An older man came up behind me, put both his arms around me on the bar, pushed himself against me and proceeded to kiss my cheek. I asked him to move and leave me alone but he...

Sexual harassment

2024 Aged 21 It was around 7.30pm. I was waiting at the tram stop and a man approached me. He mentioned the weather and we made small talk while we waited for the tram. At first, I thought he was just being friendly until he asked me what my name was and where I lived. I gave him a fake...