The Manchester Evening News may reveal a second report of a similar incident in Manchester, which is said to involve a separate woman, is also under investigation. Wider Manchester Police said they did not have any evidence at this time that the two cases were linked, but confirmed that investigations were ongoing.
Emma Clark, 32, who happens to work as a hairdresser, said she was injured in the incident and will not travel again by bus to Greater Manchester. She said she wanted to speak out to warn other women – and shared pictures with MEN showing off her long hair.
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Police said “initial investigations” showed that Emma was approached by an unknown man who “cut some of her hair before removing it”. It is understood that images from CCTV cameras are currently being evaluated.
Emma, who had previously gone to a show in Manchester with her parents, believes the man had scissors with him and said he was also holding an umbrella.
Police investigate (Image: UGC / MEN)
He sat at a bus stop on Oxford Road around 10.20pm last Friday. He said: “I was sitting at the bus stop when it happened. I was sitting there looking to my right waiting for the bus to arrive.
“I felt a sense of distraction and at first I thought a bee was buzzing next to me or something.
“I quickly turned my head to the right, but it was in my left hand. I think he put his hand around me and he came to me from the other side. He was very close to me and had an umbrella. I felt another grip of my hair and then I saw him – he was shaking his umbrella around. I got up and left.
“He continued to behave very strangely. We were shaking with his umbrella. He was alone and wearing a rain mac. I got on the bus and texted my friend.”
Oxford Road Manchester (Image: Manchester Evening News)
Emma, from Fallowfield, described the incident in detail in a post on a Facebook group to alert others. She said the “random man” was “very insidious” and when she got home, she realized that “eight to 10 inches” of her hair had been cut on one side.
Emma, who was alone at the time, added: “I tied my hair with a bottle when I got home. I have quite long hair and it is very thick. I started feeding the baby and noticed some of my hair was hanging. I pulled it and I lost a lot of hair.
“In the morning the first thing I did was report it to the police. I was told they would check CCTV. I posted it on Facebook and it sent me a message to another girl to say that exactly the same thing happened to her.
“When she reported it to the police, the police told her that there was another girl who said that a man claimed that his umbrella was caught in her hair. It is a terrible thing. Strange things have already happened to me on the buses and now I will never get in. , never on a bus again. I feel really vulnerable.
Emma’s hair strands – she says she understood when she returned home (Image: UGC / MEN)
“He was very insidious and behaved as if he was just trembling or had something wrong with him when I realized he had touched me. on one side. “
In a statement, the Greater Manchester Police told MEN: “Police have received a report of an attack on Oxford Road in downtown Manchester.
“Initial investigations show that the victim was approached by an unknown man, who then cut some of her hair before removing it. Investigations are ongoing.
“Police are also investigating a second similar report, although this report cannot be confirmed to be linked.” No further details have been revealed.
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