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Two Preston city councillors have told a town hall debate on street harassment how their own daughters have recently been subjected to it. The accounts emerged at a meeting of the authority where members called for misogyny to be treated as a hate crime. Lib Dem Cadley ward councillor Debbie Shannon, who brought the issue of public sexual harassment before the council, said that it caused “anxiety, distress and intense fear” among those who had experienced it – often leaving them feeling unsafe in their own community. She said that while she had previously been a victim of the practice herself, the scale of the problem was really brought home to her when her teenage daughter was verbally abused in the street at around the same time as Sarah Everard was murdered on her way home in London last month.

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