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Sex Attacker Tries to Force Himself on Female Kickboxer, and Gets Put To Sleep

It’s not often that we congratulate violence. However, when its a involving a sex attacker trying to force himself onto a woman, then being knocked out by her, it’s difficult not to offer our congratulations.

Mark Willis, 39, tried to attack a woman in Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, in the early hours, hitting before pushing her over a wall.

He then tried to pull down her shorts, before she switched.

It turned out the was kickboxer, who had has also taken self defence classes.

First, she tried to break his arm with a move that she knew, then she managed to lock him into a scissor grip and throttle him until he passed out.

The woman told a court:

the told them that he got on top of her and told her: “Be quiet and do as I tell you and you won’t get hurt.”

I swore at him. I think I said something like ‘go f*** yourself.’ Then he hit me again in the face. He was grabbing at my clothing.

Then she told them about the arm lock:

The intention is to send the elbow in the wrong direction and cause extreme pain or a break. I was not able to do that.

I think he figured out what I was trying to do because he managed to wriggle free and he hit me again repeatedly in the face. I was stunned for a moment.

Again I could feel him grabbing between my legs and pulling at my clothes. My legs were still free so I lifted my left leg up onto his shoulder and around the back of his neck.

I crossed my right leg over and squeezed together as hard as I could. He seemed to struggle for air – which was the point! His head was locked down. He lifted his right hand and literally pounded as hard as he could on the side of my face.

I closed my eyes and held it for as long as I could hoping he would pass out in a few seconds. Then I felt his body go limp. I thought he had lost consciousness or run out of air.

Vagina Monologues Playwrighter Eve Ensler Discusses ‘One Billion Rising’ And The Campaign To Stop Violence Against Women

The One Billion Rising campaign is encouraging people around the globe to rise up to end violence against women, by taking to the streets and dancing in solidarity for women’s rights. The idea behind it is both simple and fantastically ambitious.


The campaign spearheaded by Vagina Monologues playwrite Eve Ensler, who suffered abuse from her father as a child. She says her life might have been different had pepole been dancing in the streets for women’s rights back then.

“If I had been dancing in the streets with my mother to end violence against women when I was eight years old — when my father was beating me or giving me bloody noses — I think I would have told him he didn’t have a right to do that. That’s what coming together as a community does — you realize there’s a billion of us! We’re not alone. “

Eve Ensler

According to UN figures, one in three women on the planet will be beaten or sexually assaulted. That works out at one billion women.

The campaign, now in its third year, has taken on many forms this year. In Washington state, coaches put up billboards encouraging boys to respect women’s rights. In the Philippines, 4,000 women did a rising outside a catholic school.

“Every single country in the world picked up the call.”

Eve Ensler