How is this not a crime?

[NotThatHomer]

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Two women out walking their dogs - surrounded, photographed and harassed by a gang of seven men.
Not taken up by the police because no crime had been committed?

Why 'scared'?

We don't believe you?

FFS.

I though harassment was illegal?
Not surprising though is it, I mean the police don't exactly have a good track record when it comes to women's rights do they? It must be a pretty toxic environment for female officers.
How horrible for those two women. When is this shite going to stop, it seems to be getting worse.

Disgusting.
How odd then that 5 police persons could turn up to remove Marion Miller from an Edinburgh pub just for being her

It sounds horrific and absolutely should be investigated as a crime. The wording is strange and a bit ambiguous. The article says The incident wasn’t taken up by the police as no actual crime had taken place, despite the intimidating behaviour of the men., and
The girls said that because no crime was committed there wasn't anything they could go to the police with. but it doesn't actually say that the girls actually went to the police.

The girls were wrong. They should have called the police - afterwards if they were not able to at the time.

The girls were wrong. They should have called the police - afterwards if they were not able to at the time.

I read it as the police didn't take it forwards, not that the girls didn't report it. Although as a pp said, the wording is ambiguous.
I hate that gangs of men feel entitled to behave this way.

Horrible incident for these two girls but let’s not jump to conclusions shall we every time about the police not believing women.

It does read that the girls did not report it and they should have. If it had been reported then the Police would definitely have been called out to this.

Also, Harassment is a course of conduct that has to happen on at least 2 occasions

In Scotland that would be either a breach of the peace or a breach of section 38
of The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010

Whether it would actually be taken up, I don't know.

www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/13/section/38

Were they 'girls' or 'women'? That article reads as if it's a rehash of a couple of Facebook posts. I doubt the 'journalist' has interviewed the women.