Show Respect campaign: 'We see massive amounts of stalking and harassment, hundreds of phone calls every day'

When Talia Kensit was a teenager, she began a relationship with a boy which she says became controlling and abusive. Now 27, she speaks about that time with a sense of amazement that no adults were there to help her.

Talia recalled how she and her friends, many also suffering abuse, dealt with it on their own with no support from professionals, teachers or parents. She said: “We thought of ways we could help each other — ‘you can come and stay at my house if you feel safer there’, or ‘I will walk you to the bus stop after school so