2022, Aged 13 i was walking through town at around 7:30pm in december and eventually happened to find myself separated from my friends. i was upset as my phone was very low on battery and i had to make my way back home to fleetwood. in such a state when a ‘friendly’ group of boys came...
C, Aged 13 Growing up I had these neighbours who had a big family like ours, we saw them everyday after school. One day we were all round at their house two of the boys took me into the other room to look at “games”. Both of them who were around 13/15 pinned me down forced...
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...
RK, Aged 19 2011 I was dancing with my friends when a man approached me and said “sorry this was a dare” and proceeded to “motorboat me” and then walked away. I was so shocked that I just froze, and had no idea what to do until my friends pointed out that this had...
Aged 25 5th May 2024 I was sexually assaulted by a farmer at 3.30pm. I was outside a shop in the town centre transferring money to buy some sunglasses and as he walked past me he grabbed my ass. He then squeezed the tummy of a woman behind me as he passed her. I feel angry as a 25 year...
6th April 2024 Rosie Jones, aged 31 I entered the cafe with my 2 year old and husband. The person who touched me was talking to the women behind the counter he then turned to leave walking towards where I was stood. He raised his hand and I wrongly assumed he was going to place it on my...
2016
Aged 15
I was in a club for someone’s 18th and a boy I knew who was also 18 would keep coming up to me and my friends and groping us from behind.
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...
Annabel, aged 19 2019 I was out on a night out with a friend and was at the bar when I bent over to tie my shoelace. A man (who I didn’t know and hadn’t spoken to at all that night) towered over the top of me and smacked me on my bum. I stood up straight, in shock of what had...
February 2023
Aged 14
It only happened yesterday, I’ve told the police.
I love the bar because of the music, but I’ve been harassed there multiple times. Men have grabbed my arse, my waist, squeezed past me whilst grabbing me as there’s “no space” which wasn’t true. One occasion that really stands out to me is when I dropped my ring on the floor. I bent down...
Nicole, aged 23 2018 On a night out, on the phone to my boyfriend and two very young men walked passed. One lifted my dress whilst the other slapped my bum REALLY hard that it set me off straight away. I started following them back with one heel in hand as they ran away. However a gang of...
Nicole, aged 18 2011 In the old Tache I just remember walking in a queue to go outside for a cigarette whilst there was a queue leading back inside, and as the queues passed one another. Someone stroked my genitals and tried to slip a finger but I was wearing tights. I just remember...
J, Aged 15 2021 I was out with someone who I was with at the time and thought I could trust. I was only 15 and had a naïve outlook on boys and what they wanted. I went out with this boy one day and we went to a park he pinned me up against a wall shoving his body into me aggressively...
Emily, aged 26 2023 A woman sat by where I was dancing in put her hand up my skirt and was touching me inappropriately. My friend addressed her about this and she apologised saying it was a “joke”. The staff were very helpful and she was kicked out and barred, but it concerns me a woman...