Contact attempts
Messages, calls, emails, account follows, gifts, notes, comments, or any attempt to force attention after a no-contact boundary.
Understand 02
Repeated unwanted contact is the signal.
Stalking can look dramatic, but it can also look deniable: proximity, monitoring, indirect messages, reputation interference, unwanted gifts, or third-party contact that keeps restarting the loop.
Pattern
What to preserve
Proximity and monitoring
Unexpected appearances, drive-bys, location references, tracking concerns, or references to information they should not reasonably know.
Indirect pressure
Friends, family, fake accounts, public posts, or social pressure used to reopen contact or destabilise normal life.
Sources
Primary checks
01Use survey data for prevalence; use your log for the case pattern.
ONS says the Crime Survey self-completion module is more reliable for measuring stalking than police-recorded crime data. For an individual case, a clear chronology still matters: dates, actions, evidence files, witnesses, and impact.