Lisa, 1989-2026 On New Year’s Eve in 1989 I had my drink spiked and ended up in bed with someone so it was a rape. Following on from that I started getting followed. At times I have been terrified. The stalking continued a few months and has been sporadic and very heavy at times since. I...
Samantha, 23, 2001
Raped by ex boyfriend – didn’t report it because he had been a boyfriend and I didn’t think anyone would believe me, tried to talk to my mum but she shrugged it off.
Samantha, 37, 2015 Raped by a friend – didn’t report it. We’d slept together before and I didn’t think anyone would believe me, he was younger than me too, I didn’t want his life ruined because he made a mistake, he visited me about a year after and said he thought he’d raped...
Age 32, October 2018
I was walking in the early hours in the city centre when a man would not let me walk home. He grabbed me up against a shop window and kissed me. He then forced me around the corner and raped me. When I tried to escape he pulled me back by my hair.
Jade, 17, 2007 I was set up on a date with an older man (30s), he was a police officer so I thought I was safe. He took me for a meal at a restaurant. Then back to my friends boyfriends (who was also older) for some quiet drinks. He raped me after I told him no, and asked him to stop...
Jade, 7, 1997
I was sexually abused for months then raped age 7.
He was a babysitter. A trusted friend of my mum’s.
A, 16, June 1988
Raped in a car by a group of protestant boys. Raped because I was Catholic.
20, 2010
Hit it off with a guy who was a friend of a friend on a night out and went back to his flat.
When I got there I told him that I’d had too much to drink, but that did not stop him. He had sex with me when I wanted him to stop.
23/24, December 05 Work Xmas party… Chatting to a work colleague’s friend who had come as his plus 1. Plied with drinks, threw up on myself but he still took me to his hotel where we slept together. I’m still unsure how it happened but I just remember my colleague...
15, 2014
I was at a house party with my friends. I was harassed and forced into sex with an older boy who was 18 at the time, that was how I lost my virginity.
17, 2015 I was at a house party with my friends. There was a boy there that i really liked. I got very drunk and went to lie down in a quiet room. I woke up to him touching me and he then took me upstairs and raped me. Even though i liked this boy i didnt want this to happen. I was asleep...
Aged 19, 2003 I got a taxi home from a night out with friends – I was the last one in the cab. I was very drunk and was struggling to open my front door. A man – I’m unsure if it was the taxi driver or a neighbour – came behind me and turned the key to help me in. He then pushed me...
K, aged 20 2019 I was out on a works do and I went outside the bar to phone a friend to come and pick me up to take me home and a man followed me outside. I walked up to the art gallery to wait and the man followed me, he sat and talked to me and kept asking me to go home with him. I then...
1986/7 I had gone out with friends to “Your Father’s Moustache” (the Tache), as I love alternative music. I was with a group of female friends at the time. I was standing with 2 females by the dance floor in the club when we were approached by some young men, one of whom...