Lucy Aged 18, 2020 Met with a guy for some drinks in town (Fleetwood), he seemed really nice and we’d met up a few time before so he wasn’t a stranger. I’m working early the next day and it’s starting to get dark, so I tell him I’d best get home. I wasn’t at all drunk, I’d had maybe 2 or...
Suzie M. Aged 27, 1979 I was standing outside the store with a loft ladder purchase waiting for my husband to drive around to pick me up. Up to half a dozen Scottish men (the prom was really busy and it was very hot – I believe it was known as Scots week) came up to me and began...
Aged 23 & 39, 8th February 2025 went to the bar, my boyfriend was inside I went outside for a cigarette & the door supervisor refused to let me in to get my boyfriend, I felt vulnerable outside this bar alone & needed my boyfriend, the doorman became verbally aggressive &...
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...
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...
Georgia, aged 23 2017 After a night out with friends in Poulton, we decided to call it a night and grab some food and get a taxi together home. I went ahead of my friends to get in the queue at the takeaway, as I stepped into the doorway of the takeaway, a man, aged 18-25, with no warning...
Aged 19 2022 In xxxx a man grabbed my hair and yanked it out of the blue while I was with my mate celebrating. He said he wanted a threesome. I screamed and he ran off that night I have someone collect me as he was outside waiting and no one was gonna help… I fear for my life now...
Aged 19 2022 I was spiked many times in xxxx. I can’t remember many of my nights out and the bar staff did not help during that time. In the same club on one occasion my ex [who had been previously violent] followed me around the club and started on me. He physically assaulted me no...
Aged 24 2019 I got glassed on the dance floor by some guy. The staff didn’t help me in any way, shape or form and didn’t seem that bothered, it was like it was normal for them. My head was pouring with blood and the bouncer wouldn’t allow me out the side door to get to a&e made me...
Beth, aged 22 2019 I had been to the nightclub a week prior and had lost my jacket. I tried to get in touch with the venue after the night but couldn’t, so I thought I would just pop in on my way home after seeing some friends. I was completely sober, not that anyone should have to...
A, Aged 14
2021
I was in a classroom because I was having a lesson and a boy sits right next to me and gets close. I was thinking he probably wants to be friendly but as soon as he started touching my thighs and trying to touch my boobs in front of the teacher I knew it wasn’t right.
Nandi, aged 13 2019 I had come back from school i was wearing my PE kit i decided i wanted Oreos. Tesco on Central Drive was only about an eight minute walk from my house. I’m walking and I pass under the bridge about to turn left on Middle Street, but there’s one boy around 15-17years...
Helen, late 20s 2014 was walking alone in the afternoon. It was a nice sunny day in early summer, I felt safe at the time. I was ambushed by two men in their late 30s early 40s who ran right up to me asking me my name and shouting sexual harassment type things in my face. They’d blocked...
1988 Aged 15 I went into town to watch Rattle and Hum at the ABC cinema. I got there early on the bus so was walking along Church St quite slowly, on my own, killing a bit of time. A youngish man came up to me, quite agitated, and asked if I’d have sex with him. I was so shocked...
2002 C, aged 24 I was working in a shop. When I went out onto the shop floor to tidy up, a group of drunk men came in and started making sexual comments to me and about me. As I turned to go back behind the counter one of them grabbed my vagina from behind, putting his hand right between...