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We want to hear from people whose cases are fully concluded, where you were investigated or prosecuted while the person causing you harm was not, where a complaint about police conduct has run its course, or where the system treated you as the suspect.
Content note
This page discusses wrongful prosecution, stalking, harassment, domestic abuse and criminal justice failure. If you need to leave quickly, use the Quick Exit button or press Escape twice.
VNS documents how the criminal justice system in England and Wales fails victims of stalking, harassment, and digital evidence failures. The cases we document do not come from thin air. They come from people who were willing to describe what happened to them once it was over.
We are not a support service or a legal advice service. We are a research and advocacy organisation. What you share with us contributes anonymously to our evidence base, our parliamentary work, and our understanding of how the patterns we document play out in real cases. It may inform a report, a submission to Parliament, or the arguments we make publicly.
We cannot take on individual casework. We cannot advise on your case. We cannot intervene with the police, the CPS, or any other body on your behalf. But we can listen, and what you tell us matters.
Before you submit
- Your case must be fully concluded. All criminal proceedings, appeals, and formal complaint processes have ended. We cannot accept submissions about live cases.
- The submission covers your experience of the system, not evidence for legal proceedings. We are interested in what happened and how it was handled, not in information that belongs in a court file.
- Your submission will be used anonymously. We will not publish identifying details. We may use general themes and patterns from what you describe.
- You can include cases where the allegations against you were proven or not proven. Your experience of being on the wrong side of the system is relevant regardless of the outcome.
- If the case involved a formal complaint about an officer's conduct, that complaint must have fully concluded, including any appeal or review.
Your safety first
If your case is not concluded, or if you are still in contact with the person who caused you harm, please do not submit through this page. Use the Quick Exit button if you need to leave this page quickly.
Hush Line uses end-to-end encryption. Your submission is not linked to your identity unless you choose to include identifying information. Do not include your name, address, case reference number, or any detail that could identify you or anyone else if you want to remain anonymous.
For the strongest anonymity, access Hush Line using Tor Browser. If using Tor is not possible, a private or incognito browser window on a device not linked to your identity is the next best option. Do not submit from a device or network that could be monitored by the person who caused you harm. See Cover Your Tracks for a plain-English guide to browser and device safety.
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Hush Line is an end-to-end encrypted anonymous tip platform used by journalists and advocacy organisations to receive sensitive submissions securely. You do not need to create an account. Your submission cannot be traced back to you.
Submit your story →What happens after you submit
We read every submission. We cannot guarantee a personal response. Where your experience reflects patterns we are actively documenting, we may reach out through the Hush Line platform to ask follow-up questions. We will always ask before using any detail from your submission in our published work.
Your submission feeds into the evidence base behind our parliamentary work, our submissions to committees and consultations, and our In Depth analysis pieces. The people who submitted to VNS before you are in the testimony behind our Courts and Tribunals Bill written evidence, our stalking super complaint monitoring, and our Disposable Victims analysis. You would be joining that body of evidence.
If you are not ready to share the full story but want to flag that an experience exists, a brief note describing the type of case and force area is enough. You do not have to tell us everything to be useful.