If a woman can be raped in broad daylight on a train, there are tough questions for all of us

‘Research suggests people who witness violent crime surprisingly often intervene to help – and not always the people you might imagine.’ Illustration: Thomas Pullin/The Guardian

It was broad daylight, and there were other people in the tube carriage. She should have been safe.

She’d fallen asleep, missed her stop, and ended up at the end of the Piccadilly line. But still, on a weekend morning in a bustling city, she should have been safe. And yet, hauntingly, she wasn’t.