Journalist harassed in street during report on street harassment

BBC journalist Sarah Teale was filming a report on the street. Picture / BBC Radio Nottingham

Statistics became a reality for one BBC journalist reporting on the numbers of women harassed on the street.

Sarah Teale, a journalist for BBC East Midlands Today, was perched on a wall on a street corner in the English city of Nottingham doing a piece to camera about a recent study looking into street harassment.

"An online study showed a shocking 95 per cent of people said they had been harassed, either jeered at or had obscenities shouted at them in the street and a large proportion of them said they'd also been groped, or grabbed inappropriately in public," she said into the camera.

Just as she finished a man in a white hoodie and black pants walked past and released a string of obscenities causing Ms Teale to say: "Yeah, like that".

She later took to Twitter to report on the irony of the incident.

"Irony - reporting how 95 per cent of women are victims of verbal harassment and a man shouts sexual obscenities at me," she said.

Irony - reporting how 95% of women are victims of verbal harassment-and a man shouts sexual obscenities at me @bbcemt pic.twitter.com/qYzN40ZfNL

— Sarah Teale (@SarahTealeTV) September 24, 2015