BBC Radio 4 presenter Eddie Mair has revealed he was assaulted while getting on a bus in London last year but felt too ashamed to report it to the police.
Writing in The Sunday Times today, Mair said he “felt like prey” as one wheeled their front wheel close to his face.
A woman on the bus urged him to report the crime to prevent similar assaults but Mair said he refrained from doing so.
“For weeks, every time the local paper reported an assault, I believed that I had contributed to it.