"I was shaking like a leaf": Brave casino worker relives horror of late-night sex harassment by three men in street
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A brave casino worker has relived the horrific moment she was surrounded and sexually harassed by three men on the street.
Amy Dees was taking a break from work in the early hours of the morning when she was approached by the men who she says surrounded her and made disturbing comments
She said one of the man kissed her hand and told her ‘I’ll give you the whole world’ while another threatened 'you are going to come with me'.
The terrifying ordeal has destroyed the 24-year-old's confidence and forced her to quit her job.
To make matters worse police have been unable to identify the predatory trio,
“They are still out there. They are probably doing it to someone else now. I would never want anyone to go through what I went through,” she told Chronicle Live.
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The 24-year-old, from West Denton, Newcastle, had stepped outside the back of Aspers Casino to get some air when she was approached by three men who were chatting in a foreign accent.
“It was about 4am in the morning and it was break time. I just went out the back just to chill for a little bit,” Amy explained. “I saw these three guys walking up the alley when they approached us they were talking in a foreign language I didn’t know what they were saying and it freaked us out.”
But as the men got closer to Amy said they began talking in English, and started making disturbing comments towards her before surrounding her.
“One said; ‘Go and kiss her’,” she said. “I tried to go back in and they surrounded us. They were saying weird things like; ‘You are going to come with me’. and ‘I want to kiss you’. One of them was kissing my hand. He said; ‘I’ll give you the whole world’.”
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“I was shaking like a leaf. I didn’t know what to say or what to do. I just wanted to get away. They were just really creepy.
“They eventually started to walk away one at a time. By that time I was distraught. I was crying and crying.”
Amy, who has waived her legal right to anonymity as a victim of a sex attack, went back into work and finished her shift.
When she got home and told her parents what had happened Amy’s dad took her straight to Forth Banks police station to report the incident.
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A police officer told her the area was covered by a number of CCTV cameras and he was hopeful images of the men would be available.
Following the attack Amy decided to leave her job at Aspers as she no longer felt safe working night shifts,
“It massively affected my confidence,” she said. “I wasn’t confident walking to my car at night and if any man approached us I would freeze. I left my job because I had to work nightshift.
“Before this I always used to think if something like that happened to me I would stand up to them. But when it happens to you you just freeze. I wanted to should and scream but I couldn’t.”
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A Northumbria Police spokesman said officers would still like to hear from anyone with any information about the attack.
He said: “We can confirm we are investigating an incident outside Aspers Casino where four men approached a female staff member, touched her hand and tried to kiss her before the woman went back inside the casino.
“Officers have been carrying out a number of enquiries and trawled CCTV footage in the city centre but have so far been unable to identify those involved. If anyone has information about the incident then police would ask they get in touch with police.”
Call Northumbria Police on 101 quoting log 118 02/11/17.