

“Obviously nobody on the bus consented to that. Greater Manchester Police said they are 'progressing' with their investigation (Image: Mark Waugh Manchester Press Photography Ltd) They got in touch, and realised that neither incident was isolated. We thought, he’s looking at us weird - what if he gets off at the same stop as us? It’s late at night.”Įva and Isobel found a Facebook post written by Megan*, a woman who had had almost exactly the same experience as them, on the very same night. And then as it just kept going, we got really uncomfortable. "We were laughing because we were sort of in shock, we just wanted to make a joke out of it. “It was funny when it started, at first we were like, surely this is not happening,” students Eva and Isobel* who saw the man on the 143 bus last Tuesday, said. READ MORE: Urgent appeal as heavily pregnant mum, husband and their two children, aged three and two, all go missing Two of the women reported that he either appeared to be, or was actively, touching himself during the incident. The Manchester Evening News has spoken to six women who all say they have been targeted by this man, in a period of time stretching from November 2021 to last week.Īll the women gave consistent accounts of how the man would sit in front of them, positioning his phone in such a way that meant they could not help but see the videos, and play pornographic content that became increasingly more and more explicit, while either looking behind him or viewing their reactions in the reflection of his phone screen - potentially even recording them. Women in Manchester have spoken out about a number of “insidious” incidents involving a man watching porn and ‘getting off’ on their reactions taking place on buses and trams in the city.
