Ellie Flynn has spoken out about the predatory behaviour she experienced on a night out in Liverpool.
The journalist went undercover to highlight the reality of sexual harassment against women for a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary. Undercover: Sexual Harassment - The Truth airs at 10pm on Monday, December 12.
Ellie has written a column in The Times ahead of the show airing and revealed she was "stunned by the extent of predatory behaviour [she] experienced across two nights out in Liverpool and London this summer". Ellie was surrounded by a specialised security team and wore a mic as she went undercover in the city centre.
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Ellie detailed a horrifying experience when she was approached by a man as she was "slumped on a bollard" she then details how the man questions her, inviting her to a bar and offering her cannabis. Ellie was still 'acting drunk' when the man followed her back to her hotel room, the crew had rigged the hotel room with a camera.
There was also a security guard in the nearby bathroom and a safe word ready to use if anything happened. However, the journalist said the experience was still unnerving and felt terrified when the time came to expose him.
In her article for The Times she details what will be shown in the documentary and how the man tried to insist they had gone to the hotel room together, when she told him he had followed her, she wrote: "I was acutely conscious of being in such an enclosed space with a man I believe could have been a sexual predator."
Ellie said she was struck by the man's reaction as he initially said "sorry" and got up to leave before he turned and said: "Come on, give me a kiss.” Ellie spoke of how she was "most appalled" by this remark.
She added: "Afterwards, I was hit by a flood of emotion: thankful my night was over, but terrified about what his return to the streets could mean for other drunk, vulnerable women."
Ellie also detailed a horrifying experience in London when she was followed by two men in Leicester Square.
YouGov conducted a survey for Channel 4 and found 1 in 4 women in the UK have been followed on a night out and 82% are conscious of the threat of predatory behaviour from men when walking alone in the dark. The survey also found one in four women surveyed had been raped or sexually assaulted on a night out.
Read her full story for The Times here.
Undercover: Sexual Harassment — The Truth is on Channel 4 at 10pm on December 12 and on All 4
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