The backbencher's bill aims to criminalise:
Deliberately walking closely behind someone as they walk home at night
Making obscene or aggressive comments towards a person
Making obscene or offensive gestures towards a person
Obstructing a person's path
Driving or riding a vehicle slowly near to a person making a journey
As it stands, the bill will also introduce harsher sentences - increasing the maximum sentences from six months to two years. Campaigners have also called for wolf-whistling and staring intently to be criminalised.
The article was updated. Staring is not part of the proposed law.
They are going to have to define some of this shit.
What's too close? How long is too long?
So now you can't walk in the same direction as a lone woman at night even if that's your direction of travel?
What about women that are slow walkers? Now you have to keep their pace?
What if the man is old and tired from his physical job. Does he still have to cross the road or walk around in circles until she leaves?
Yeah - it appears to have changed. Lucky I archived it.
The feminists that run the BBC probably put “new staring law” out there as a trial balloon