Scarlett, Aged 17 2017 I was hanging out with two “friends” in Ashton Gardens at around 10 at night. One of them needed to get on the bus home back to Blackpool and the other said he would wait and walk me back home and then go get the bus. After dropping the first friend at the bus stop...
Scarlett, Aged 17 Halloween, 2016 I went to meet a friend that I went to school with at a party on Halloween night. I went to have a drink and I only had about three sips and started feeling really strange, blurred vision, couldn’t really understand what anyone was saying to me and then I...
SSP, Aged 17 1993 After a night out – I was unable to stay at my friends house as planned. So her male “friend” took me to a hotel on New South Promenade, once I was there, he took me to an empty bedroom told me that I could lie down and he would get into bed with me. He was a lot...
Danielle, Aged 16/17 1997/1998 I used to work in a sport shop/sports stall. I was invited out with an older lady for drinks, whilst I was under age, on a night out straight from work. We went to a rave night at a club above the *** pub. I remember I was dancing and I saw my college...
Danielle, Aged 14 1995 I might have finished athletics training and had been roller blading with friends and was on my way past Stanley Park front gates and I was called over by **** so I stopped to say hi, because he was a familiar face, a lad whom I knew. We chatted a couple of minutes...
Aged 18
A man tried to dance with me. I politely told him I was with friends. It didn’t stop him putting his hands up my skirt. We left soon after. All his mates cheered him on.
Aged 14 2015 I was at school in year 9 and during break I was grabbed underneath my skirt by a lad in the year above. At the time I felt uncomfortable but I laughed it off like I should’ve enjoyed it. I never reported it out of embarrassment and fear of either name calling or being told I...
2012, aged 18 There was a boy who had been making inappropriate comments for a while and ignored my requests to stop. We sat near each other in class and so it was very awkward and uncomfortable. I left class to go to the toilet and he followed me and cornered me. He then tried to touch...
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...
2022 Aged 26
A man walked to the toilet and grabbed my breast as he walked past. He laughed in my face at my reaction but the bouncers dealt with him extremely well.
2022 Aged 24
A drunk man in his late 20s put hand up my skirt when I was out with my friends.
2022 Aged 25
Whilst on a night out I was consistently touched by a man at the bar. After several advances he put his hand up my skirt. He was removed once the bouncers had been informed but I was left stuck inside as he refused to move away from the outside of the venue.
2012 Natalie McCullagh, Aged 22 I worked at a bar and girls (never the lads) would sometimes be asked to go out and sell jagerbombs to customers on the floor. Most of the younger girls didn’t like to do it due to the creepy men making comments or touching them. I offered to take it...
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...
2022 Aged 14
My 14-year-old daughter and her friends experienced an Asian male in his 40/50s pressing and rubbing his groin on them as they waited in a busy fast food restaurant on the promenade.