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...
Nicole, aged 22 2016 During my employment here, there were many inappropriate times but the one that really stuck out to me was when I had been grabbed by the wrist by some man who was really drunk as I was collecting glasses. He was slurring his words and wouldn’t let go when I politely...
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...
2021, aged 32 I was out with friends for drinks and started to feel really unwell, thankfully I was able to get a taxi home quickly soon after I started to feel ill but didn’t remember getting in. I woke up in the morning feeling completely out of it and struggling to stay awake, I...
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...
2006 Aged 25 Leaving a night club two men harassed us to go home with them. We said no and jumped into a taxi. Then one man got in the front and the other tried to open the back door. We told the taxi driver we don’t know them. So he asked them to get out. The taxi driver unlocked the...
2019 Aged 32 Stood at the bar and a man put his hand down my top and grabbed my breast. My partner informed the door staff and he was just asked to leave. The following day we did report it to the company but they just said “we will follow it up with door staff”. We have never returned to...