This happened in 2018 but has been playing on my mind a lot recently.
Was holidaying in Cyprus with my DS, my parents and older male cousin.
Parents offered to watch DS whilst I went on a night out with my cousin. I will admit we got very drunk and on the way back I popped into a shop for some cigarettes and when I came out my cousin wasn't there. There was a bit of confusion and he thought I was behind him but I thought he was waiting.
So I had spent my last bit of money on cigarettes and had to walk back, thought my cousin would be just a bit ahead. I set off walking back to the apartment but was on a street that wasn't the best lit (a lot of the streets were like this) but you know, I had a drink so thought I would be fine as you do.
Only someone came out of nowhere and grabbed me from behind, and tried pulling my clothes off. I had a playsuit on which I think actually saved me because it wasn't the easiest of clothing to remove and probably because I am not the slimmest of girls.
He managed to pull down the top half and proceeded to try and kiss me and put his mouth on my breasts. I was begging him to stop and was terrified. I don't know how but I managed to get away and ran but he caught up and grabbed me again so I fought back and legged it for my life.
At the top of the street there was a road and I flagged a car down. It was three women who I asked to call the police. One of the girls told me her auntie was a police officer and called her. A normal car came and picked me up and took me to a strange police station and began questioning me. I was quite upset at this point and they werent very comforting or helpful at all. They told me that if he didnt actually rape me and I didn't scratch him then they had no DNA and that was that. I was dropped back off to my apartment.
The next day the police turned up and brought back my handbag that I had dropped when I ran from this man, apparently a taxi driver had handed it in (I never caught a taxi) and that was it.
I felt like this man had been lying in wait for an opportunity to pounce on whoever he could get his hands on and was so frustrated as I recently saw an article in a magazine about a woman who was sexually assaulted by a man who kissed her and they managed to retrieve his saliva so got a DNA sample.
I know I shouldn't have been walking on my own and blah blah blah, so please don't comment if you just want to remind me of all I shouldn't have done. I just wanted opinions on whether the police should have done more.