00:00At least one in 12 women will be a victim of violence against women and girls every year.
00:07That's two million every year.
00:09And in 2023, Daisy Foster was one of them.
00:18And this is the song she's now written to raise awareness and hopefully find closure.
00:22You get taught certain things to try and prevent it or to protect yourself
00:28and in that situation, I don't feel like we could have done more.
00:32And again, this is why we wanted to include these lyrics into the song itself,
00:38because I feel like that is something that women worldwide are told.
00:43And that itself isn't enough to stop this from happening.
00:46So this is why we say we know that it's not in the lyrics.
00:50It literally states, we know it's not all men, but one's enough.
00:53One's enough for it to be an issue.
00:54You can only do so much as a woman to prevent it yourself.
01:10The artist from Broadstairs was attacked in October 2023
01:14when she was walking down a road in Birmingham.
01:17She went to university there and she was doing, as all girls are told,
01:21walking home in a group.
01:23Daisy says one of her friends was grabbed by a man and she jumped to her defence.
01:27Daisy was then attacked.
01:29I had some injuries that I needed to get treated with in hospital.
01:34But that was it. We got the police involved.
01:37They did a search of the area.
01:39Nothing ever got found.
01:40Never heard anything back from them, really, apart from the day after.
01:45And that was the end of it.
01:47West Midlands Police said after investigating,
01:49they weren't able to identify the suspect,
01:52but said tackling this kind of violence was a priority.
01:56Daisy's swan song, which stands for Safety for Women at Night,
02:00is key to the type of awareness she's trying to raise.
02:05We've decided to put all of the proceeds from the song
02:07towards the NIA project.
02:09And when we were trying to find charities
02:12that we could put these proceeds towards,
02:14nearly all of them were solely for domestic violence.
02:18It is a massive issue and, of course, they need the support.
02:20But I think we need to see kind of an uprise of more charities
02:24that will support people that are harassed on the street,
02:27that need that kind of service.
02:30One of the only charities to offer this support,
02:33and Kent's first and only of its kind,
02:35is the Tunbridge Wells Reclaim the Night Walk,
02:38led by local councillors and activists.
02:40We can do all the right things and still be attacked.
02:45There is a commitment to bring down violence against women and girls
02:49by half in a decade, which is really positive.
02:56I do believe that there will be a cross-government,
02:59cross-department response to this,
03:01and more policing is necessary, more community policing.
03:06Staying silent can often feel like the only choice.
03:09But by Daisy sharing her story
03:11and giving her song such an elegant title,
03:14it highlights what can, in reality, be so brutal.
03:19It kind of hits home, because for many women,
03:22this could be their last moments
03:24or their final moments of the things that they remember.
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