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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...

Verbal abuse

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...

Intimidation and indecent exposure

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...

Spiked

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...

Indecent exposure

2023 Aged 39 I went to a pub, purely to watch a band I was interested in. I had not long been at the venue, and sat down with a drink with my friend. A man walked over, in his 60s at a guess. He pulled his pants down and started flashing his genital area at anyone who would look. My...

Sexually assaulted

Nicole, aged 23 2018 On a night out, on the phone to my boyfriend and two very young men walked passed. One lifted my dress whilst the other slapped my bum REALLY hard that it set me off straight away. I started following them back with one heel in hand as they ran away. However a gang of...

Catcalled

Nicole, aged 30 2023 Just on my way to work and a delivery guy was going into a car with another guy. As I was walking past, he wolf-whistled and I remember hearing it but when it’s happened so often before you just drown it out and ignore it completely. However, because I ignored this...

Physically and racially abused

Nicole, aged 22 2016 During my employment here, there were many inappropriate times but the one that really stuck out to me was when I had been grabbed by the wrist by some man who was really drunk as I was collecting glasses. He was slurring his words and wouldn’t let go when I politely...

Sexually assaulted

Nicole, aged 18 2011 In the old Tache I just remember walking in a queue to go outside for a cigarette whilst there was a queue leading back inside, and as the queues passed one another. Someone stroked my genitals and tried to slip a finger but I was wearing tights. I just remember...

Threat of rape

Amanda, aged 47

December, 2023

Walking to work at 9.05 in the morning I was stopped by a man who said “I’m gonna fuck you real good”.

Followed/harassed

Bella, aged 19 2019 After arguing with my boyfriend on a night out he left me crying in the street. About two minutes later a group of five lads all crowded around me, berating me and making fun of me. When I walked away they all followed me my entire walk home taking pictures of me...

Indecent exposure

E, aged 18 2020 I was on the number 3 bus home when a man sat at the back a few seats down from me. I could feel him staring at me but I chose to ignore it until I heard heavy breathing. When I looked over he was touching himself and not even trying to hide it. There were many other...

Spiked and sexually assaulted

Kate, aged 28 October 2023 My drink was spiked with GHB in xxx. I was then separated from my friend and taken to another club by a DJ and two of his friends. They then dumped me on the side of road where I collapsed and three more men tried to take advantage of me. I was saved by a woman...

Intrusive staring

Aged 14

2020

I got of the bus and was walking home. I passed a man in a bus stop and smiled at him, just being polite, and and then he looked me up and down and stared at my skirt, then he looked up at me and winked, so I sped up to get away from him.

Followed

Aged 17

2023

A guy followed me to the corner shop before work. Later that day after work I was wold whistled by another guy.