Ali, aged 25 27th April 2023 I parked my car on Queen Street, ironically to go and record an interview with BBC Northwest about the Reclaim Blackpool Map. When I was getting my skateboard out of my car a man approached me asking to ‘have a go’ on my skateboard & asking me what my name...
Aged 33 2010 I’d gone on a night out with friends. After talking to someone at the bar, I took my drink and went back to my friends. After a short while my friends noticed I was acting more drunk than I should have been, for the amount we had drunk so far. They got me in a taxi and...
Katelyn, aged 16 16 December 2022 I went out to skate at Stanley Park skate park at around 8pm and bumped into a friend. After a while he got touchy which I shut down but he wouldn’t stop to the point he was putting his hands down my pants and trying to get them off and I was crying...
Aged 31 2022 Approached and attacked by a stranger from behind whilst walking my dog. Reported to the police who treated me abhorrently including questioning why I took my dog out on my own when it was going dark. Then due to “lack of evidence”, put a report out on social...
Aged 22
2017
I was bent down picking up something off the bottom shelf in Tesco. A much older man grabbed my arse and told me I would look better on my knees looking up at him.
Aged 19
2014
I had my breasts groped on the dance floor after I repeatedly told this person that I wasn’t interested in him.
E, aged 18 2016 I was on a big works do in town and we were were all stood in a group near the bar, just chatting and having a nice time, when a group of men behind us tapped me and a colleague on the shoulder and said something. We both just responded out of politeness, and turned back...
2021 I was walking past Aldi at the end of Whitegate drive in winter 2021 and I’ll never ever forget it!! The corner of Aldi, behind Greggs, it was about nine at night and I had my earphones in. A man stopped in front of me as I went to pass him. I went to walk past but he stood in my way...
DD, aged 28 2021 I was out with a couple of friends and bumped into another group, we started chatting and laughing, a pretty standard night out in Blackpool, but one guy in the other group kept leaning into me to speak to me. The music wasn’t that loud, he kept grabbing my waist...
Aged 18 2021 I was with two of my girl friends. One of them had been spiked and all our phones were dead, it was after 4am and we were stranded on the street in Blackpool with our friend who was unable to move or see. There was no one around. It was clear she had been spiked as she was...
Jasmine, aged 19 2020 A guy started following me in his car, he pulled over a few times trying to get my attention, he yelled some pretty gross stuff at me. At the junction on central drive, he got out of his car and started approaching me, he was masturbating under his pants and I...
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...
Aged 31 2023 Out with my wonderful friends, dancing and a guy grabbed my friend’s arse. She told him to leave her alone. He then made a grinding motion behind me. We moved away from him and informed one of the male bouncers who said he would keep an eye on him. The bouncer, we feel...
Aged 40 2023 In a group of four friends, all in our 40s, we went to ***** for a dance. Immediately we were swarmed by different men older than us who kept trying to dance, grind etc. We told them to back off but they kept coming, it was incredibly intimidating and the bouncers just...
Aged 13 2012 I was 13 at a friend’s birthday party and a few of us left to drink alcohol on the nearby park. I was so drunk I could barely stand and remember falling asleep/passing out not long before. My ‘boyfriend’ at the time, whom I’d been with a few weeks, took me off into the trees...