“I wanted to throw up” Judy Murray comes out with horrifying details of sexual assault by a senior education executive


“I wanted to throw up” Judy Murray comes out with horrifying details of sexual assault by a senior education executive

Judy Murray

Judy Murray, mother and former coach of Grand Slam champions Andy Murray and Jamie Murray has come out and opened up about a disturbing incident that happened with her nearly 8 years ago. Judy came forward with her traumatising experience in light of the walkout by many people at the Scottish Football Writers’ Association Dinner.

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As per the reports in Guardian, many esteemed broadcasters and attendees left the event midway through after sexist and misogynistic jokes were made in the speech by former lawyer Bill Copeland, one of the speakers at the event. The large scale walkout has led to the association putting out an apology statement and has undertaken a review of the incident.

Judy took this as an opportunity to point out her own incident and had to relive it through her column in the Sunday Post. Judy had been assaulted by a very drunk senior person of the organisation at the event whose details the tennis coach did not mention while not mentioning the name of the assaulter as well.

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Judy Murray relives the horrible incident

Judy Murray
Judy Murray

Having been an active member in the sports field for quite a long time now, Judy said that she was not surprised by the poor incident at Scottish Football Writer’s Association dinner and came out with the details of her own incident that sends a chill down the spine.

“I know from my own experience that, while there is undoubtedly a greater awareness, there remains an unacceptable level of sexism and misogyny in sport – and elsewhere – that seems resistant to change. I was part of an after-dinner panel at a big event for a major educational establishment about eight years ago and I was seated next to a very senior person from that organisation. Towards the end of the meal, it was clear he had had quite a bit to drink and he put his hand firstly on my knee.

“I didn’t know what to do so I removed his hand and leaned forward to pour myself some water and as I did he slipped his hand down the back of my trousers. At that point, I got up and went straight to the bathroom. I wanted to throw up. I was totally disgusted and didn’t know what to do. I was in a state of wondering if I should report this to someone? If so, to whom? I knew it would cause a huge stir. Plus I still had to speak on the panel. Do I just leave now or do my speech and leave? It rocked me so badly.

I sat in the loos for ages and decided to do the speech – the show must go on and all that – but I didn’t go back into the room until I knew it was time for me to go on stage. As soon as I had done my bit, I walked back to the table, picked up my bag and left. I spoke to nobody. The incident left me feeling sick to my stomach for a long time. I have never spoken of this before but maybe I should have.

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“If something like that happened to me now I definitely would. Women have found their voices and are calling out all sorts of sexist behaviour. It’s given confidence to others to do the same,” wrote Judy as she recounted another incident when her dressing was questioned at an awards night where she had gone to pick up an award for her son Andy and the insults led to her skipping events for a long time.

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