A woman has been left 'distraught' after six drunk louts pushed open her locked disabled toilet door as she sat on the loo.
The men then proceeded to keep the door open and laugh at Laura Bell, as she sat there with her underwear 'round her ankles'.
The ordeal unfolded following the end of the over-16s adult panto Little Red Riding at the Lyceum Theatre in Crewe, Stoke-on-Trent Live reports.
Now the theatre has come out and condemned the 'thoughtless and insensitive' individuals who humiliated Laura.
Laura, who has leukaemia and Addison's Disease, had attended the theatre with her husband and friends.
She was in one of the disabled toilets after the show when the group of men started banging on the loo door and rattling the handle.
She said: "I heard men’s drunk voices saying that they needed to go for a 'p***', and they started to shake the door.
“I wasn’t worried at first because I’d locked the door and then all of a sudden they started to rattle the door. They were asking is anybody in here, I said 'yes'.
“Then, all of a sudden, the door just came wide open and I’m sitting on the toilet with my knickers round my ankles.
“There were six gentlemen, well not gentlemen, six men, and a woman, and they were just laughing, the door was wide open.
“They just left the door wide open laughing. They didn’t do anything, they just stood there laughing."
Laura, from Blurton, lives with 'excruciating' pain and relies on a walking stick - and sometimes a scooter - to get around.
She added: "It was absolutely disgusting. To think that I’d been out and somebody had just absolutely laughed at my disability has made me even more vulnerable. It put me at risk. I just think it’s shocking.
“You try to live your life as normally as you can. You want to go out and do things, and you want to try to plan things, so you think sod it. To go out, it takes that bit of ‘stop thinking everybody’s looking at you'. It's hard. All of this, it knocks your confidence away and starts to chip away."
Laura does not know the identities of the men.
A Crewe Lyceum Theatre spokesman said: "We understand that this was a distressing incident for the customer involved and we are sorry that they experienced this kind of intrusion at the hands of a group of thoughtless and insensitive individuals.
"Upon notification of the incident, the facility was immediately checked by our maintenance team and found to be in full working order. The customer has received a full written response from the theatre.”
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