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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

University of Manchester to investigate sexual harassment of female medical students

Manchester University campus The Quadrangle near Oxford Road. It has a mix of historic stone buildings and a modern one with a glass frontage.
One of the students targeted has written to the university’s vice-chancellor describing a ‘pervasive culture of sexual harassment’ in the school of medical sciences. Photograph: Mark Waugh/Alamy

The University of Manchester has launched an investigation after about 20 female medical students complained of receiving anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night from male callers who intimidated and sexually harassed them.

The calls have been going on for at least three years, according to Charlotte Buttercase, a final-year medical student and one of those targeted.

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