A schoolgirl felt "uncomfortable" when a grown man "complimented" her outside Home Bargains.
Alexia, Camille and Cara helped craft Liverpool Council's new strategy for tackling violence against women and girls. They're only 15, and already they speak openly about the risk of rape and sexual assault. Sat around a table in St Julie's Catholic High School, they reeled off experience after experience of men and boys harassing them, belittling them and making them uncomfortable - "low level" behaviours that can become something worse.
They told the ECHO about the grown man sitting next to them on an otherwise empty bus. The boys calling them ugly if they reject their advances. The middle-aged men asking where they're getting off the train. The group of lads huddled around the door of a shop, laughing, pointing and making inappropriate comments. And a flurry of messages from boys if the girls dare challenge their mate's behaviour.
