39, 1/8/26 Waiting at the bus stop with my two daughters (age 12) at 3.30pm and a man playing loud music and clearly off his head came past battering the door and windows of the community centre next to us clearly angry it wasn’t open. I knew not to watch him and keep my head down but my...
18, 2011 I was out with friends and my then boyfriend at my university’s SU club. My boyfriend went to the bar to get drinks and left me with my friends. A guy from another group (who I didn’t know) came over and tried to speak to me and get me to dance with him. I told him I...
19, February 2012 I was in my second year at the University, and I worked part time in the SU pub. When it was the Superbowl in 2012 the pub got permissions to stay open (until about 5/6am) to show it and have a Superbowl party. I ended up working, so was finishing my shift in the early...
14 Followed in to shop when was in school uniform with my friend and asked by older man (around 70) if the headteacher still ‘spanked the girls’ for being naughty. Offered sweets and chocolate at the side of the road by same man and frequently spotted his car outside of school in the...
14
Followed home and stalked by three men in a car in the evening
M, 15
Attempted rape on an embankment in the centre of Littleborough by the road by a man who was a little older than me. I had to reason with him to promise to give him what he wanted in order to get away.
M, 14
Catcalled multiple times over a number of years walking home from school in my school uniform. Multiple men in vans and cars
26, 2018 After a night out I was walking home,and on the phone to my boyfriend at the time. I got to the traffic lights on union st across from the court building and decided my shoes were hurting and I needed to take them off. I was sorting this out myself and a man in his 20s approached...
25, 2017 I was walking along market street in broad daylight (around 2pm). The street was fairly busy at a narrow section, and someone pinched my bum. I immediately looked around in horror to try and identify who had done it but there were too many people and no way of identifying who had...
Megan, 19, October 2024 My friends were getting ready for a night out. I didn’t intend to go, but just before they left, I decided that I would. I hadn’t had a drop of alcohol up to that point. We got to the bar and ordered a round of jager bombs. One of my friends didn’t like hers, so...
Carol Birkett, 13, 1978 I was 13 years old, walking home (in daylight) through the park when a man called out to me. I looked toward him and he was masturbating and asking me to go to him. I ran home so fast, I was terrified. I didn’t tell anyone for ages and never told my mum cos...
Tim C, 19/20ish, June 2004/5 This is a bystander account. Whilst in the crowd at Download Festival I witnessed a young woman crowdsurfer being groped by a male member of the crowd as she went past us. This guy very deliberately took advantage of her inability to stop him, squeezing her...
N/A, 20, April 2026 I had gone out with an old friend and some of their work colleagues. We ended up going into [a bar] since it was new and opening weekend. After about an hour of being there however I went to the bathroom it was only 11:30pm I believe, and I blacked out regaining...
Anon, 21, June 2025 I went into a small shop to buy some snacks for myself, instead of being greeted properly, the man serving at the till said to me “do you like it tight?” I said “what?”, and he said “you’re out of breath”. I do struggle with...
14,12 and 10, 25th Feb 2026 My daughters (14 and 10) went into the shop to look for Vinyls with their friend (12). When they walked in the shop three older men were chatting behind the counter. The girls had been in the shop about 2 minutes flicking through the vinyl when one of the men...