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Verbally Abused

Verbally abused

1999 B, age 16

I went to a local shop and was asked by the man behind the counter if I wanted to sit on his fingers and swivel. I didn’t know what to say at the time and my friends just laughed. I didn’t go in the shop again.

Verbally abused

1997 B, aged 14 My friends and I use to hang around the front of the school and the postman used to come on the school grounds around the same time of first break every day. Over about a month he would chat to us, ask us questions which progressively got more personal. Then he started to...

Verbally abused

2019 Aged 53 I was walking home in the afternoon. Two teenage boys came out of Laine’s bakery eating pies and one threw a paper bag on the floor. I saw him do this, but didn’t say anything. He walked towards me, stood in front of me and just screamed in my face. I was too...

Verbally abused

2019 Aged 53 I was walking away from town on my lunch break. A man walked out of Cash Converters looking at his phone and not looking at the street. I swerved to avoid bumping into him, but we bumped arms. I said something like “whoops” as it was no one’s fault –...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1997 Lindsay, aged 21 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1996 Lindsay, aged 20 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1995 Lindsay, aged 19 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1994 Lindsay, aged 18 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1993 Lindsay, aged 17 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Catcalling and verbal abuse

1992 Lindsay, aged 16 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...

Verbally abused and not helped by bouncers

2019 Aged 23 I was walking home from work late at night when a man started shouting at me aggressively, we were both on the other side of the road from the Belle Vue pub. He was clearly intoxicated. I crossed the road and asked the bouncers if I could go into the Belle Vue to use the C...

Verbally abused

2021 Age 34 I noticed the man looking at me in Iceland. Once we were out the shop he went to his van as I began to walk down the street. The man was driving in the van and slowing as I was walking toward the van in the opposite of the road. He carried on looking at me and I stuck my...