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Olivia Williams

Liverpool fan 'felt sick' after offer of '30 minutes of fun' for cup final tickets

A woman said she "felt sick" after she was asked for "30 minutes of fun" in return for Liverpool FC match tickets.

Abigail Rudkin, from Aintree, sent a tweet out on Thursday asking if anyone had spare tickets for the Liverpool vs Chelsea Carabao Cup final at Wembley on February 27.

However, when the 21-year-old opened her messages, she said she received an "unsolicited sexual advance", reports the Liverpool Echo.

In the message, a person said to Abigail "I have spares for the final."

The student, who wanted to check the tickets were legitimate asked the person "do you have proof."

To which the twitter user said: "Lol. Yes I can send it.

"If you meet me at my hotel we can have 30 mins of fun and I'll give you the ticket."

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Abigail received disgusting messages online (Abigail Rudkin/Liverpool Echo)

Abigail said she was left "feeling sick" and "couldn't believe" the message when she read it.

Speaking to the ECHO, the 21-year-old said: "I couldn't believe, I just thought if you're putting it out on Twitter, you're letting people know there are people like that out there and how dangerous it is.

"The experiences people have to go through, not just women, but as a woman being commented on like that, as if I would say yes to something like that.

"Did they think I was going to say yes? Of course not.

"It made me feel a bit sick to be honest.

"You never know if anyone would ever say yes to that and what type of person they are that they are meeting up with for these tickets.

"You could never know what could happen."

Abigail then reported the message to Twitter under 'harassment' and explained to Twitter about the interaction.

Abigail said she was disappointed by the response from Twitter (Abigail Rudkin/Liverpool Echo)

She said: "I reported it to Twitter as it was harassment because it was an unsolicited sexual advance, that's what it came across as.

"I reported it and when it asked me to add more details, I commented saying I was looking for match tickets and there was this unsolicited sexual advance sort of thing.

"And literally within 10 minutes, I got a notification saying 'hi we have reviewed it and there's no issue kind of thing'."

"I reported it and when it asked me to add more details, I commented saying I was looking for match tickets and there was this unsolicited sexual advance sort of thing.

"And literally within 10 minutes, I got a notification saying 'hi we have reviewed it and there's no issue kind of thing'."

Abigail said she was "disappointed" by Twitter's response but "sort of expected it."

She said: "Twitter needs to have someone reviewing these things, it feels very automated.

"Sometimes you can get a response back saying they didn't violate anything within a minute and you think how has anyone actually reviewed the whole interaction in that time?"

Twitter has been contacted for comment.

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