4th February 2024 Aged 26 I had attended a busy gig at xxx, somewhere I had always felt comfortable being. I had a few beers but started to feel more drunk than I should have been. Didn’t think too much of it until I woke up the next morning with what appeared to be a needle mark in my...
I love the bar because of the music, but I’ve been harassed there multiple times. Men have grabbed my arse, my waist, squeezed past me whilst grabbing me as there’s “no space” which wasn’t true. One occasion that really stands out to me is when I dropped my ring on the floor. I bent down...
2024 Tamzin, aged 23 As a proud bisexual dating a proud pansexual man we’re no strangers to going into gay bars. For some reason I think people see me as a challenge. They see me and instantly label me as a lesbian they would like to “turn”. 2 different guys constantly approached me...
2023 Tamzin, aged 23 I was by the upstairs bar with my boyfriend and his friend when some guy repeatedly “squeezed past” us. It felt like a lot of times to be going up and down from where he was sat. He then did it again and this time grabbed my bum as he walked past with enough force for...
2019 Aged 20 I was out with some friends from work when I bumped into a group of people I knew. Whilst I was talking to these people, I left my drink foolishly unattended and when I returned and drank the drink I very quickly became unwell. I was very lucky that one of the girls I worked...
2023 Aged 20 I had been on a regular night with a few friends and everything was going smoothly, we visited the bar as its open late and we had previously been at another bat we liked that closes early. It was busy at the bar downstairs but my friends where dancing so I thought id go to...
December 2023 Aged 20 I was out with friends seeing my friend’s partner perform – we had been out for a few hours and there where a few of us. after a while I noticed my friend had been gone a little while so I tried to see if she was in the toilets. I found her in there being...
2020-2023 I have had numerous occasions where I’ve felt uncomfortable and not safe because of males in this bar. One of the times a guy turned round and went ‘I’m going to fuck you tonight’ while grabbing my arm even though I had said no leave me alone multiple times. There have been a...
2023 Bystander account, aged 24 Witnessed two separate groups of women get spiked within minutes of each other. I was upstairs by the bar and noticed a young girl passed out on the floor her friends frantically trying to help her as they thought she’d been spiked. She was safe as...
Katie I won a booth at a nightclub and it was pretty dead, me and my friend asked these men to watch our table which all seemed well and fine. I came back had one sip of my drink and from that I don’t remember much but nobody would help me as I seemed drunk, however I wasn’t because these...
2022 Aged 18 I was a musician at this bar, I often had older men making sexual comments at me but the one I remember most distinctly was when I was performing on stage and a man turned to my boyfriend at the time, pointed at me and said ‘let me have a go’ insinuating that I was an object...
2014 Laura, aged 25 I was on a night out with a friend, we had had a couple of drinks. I wasn’t feeling great so we decided to go home. In the taxi home I started to feel very drunk, by the time I got home I was very sick for a few hours. I believe I had been spiked. I reported it...
January 2024 Ages 25, 26 and 56 I was walking with my sister, mum and dad back to the car from having dinner. A drunk gentleman who we first thought was talking loudly but very incoherently on the phone as it was in his hands, was on the steps of the pub as we was exiting Deangate onto...
2018 Aged 34 I was a member of staff and I was washing my hands in the toilets, when two drag performers from Funny Girls blocked my exit, not letting me leave until I looked at the drag DJ’s penis. Reported to management who found it funny with a reply like, ‘Who hasn’t seen it?!’ More...
Josie B, aged 20 2023 I hadn’t drunk very much and was ok one minute. The next I was sweating profusely, being sick and couldn’t walk. I was frightened of what was happening and was crying. I felt poorly over the next few days. I also noticed a blood spot on my skin when I got home but...