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Olivia Williams & Kieran Isgin

Woman 'felt sick' after being offered '30 minutes of fun' for cup final tickets

A woman was left feeling "sick" after she was asked for "30 minutes of fun" in exchange for Liverpool FC match tickets.

Abigail Rudkin posted a tweet asking if anyone had a spare ticket for the the Liverpool vs Chelsea Carabao Cup final on February 27.

The 21-year-old, from Aintree, Merseyside, received a direct message from a Twitter user claiming they had spares for the final.

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But she was left disgusted after opening it to find "unsolicited sexual advance", Liverpool Echo reports.

The person contacted Abigail, saying "I have spares for the final".

She replied to the person asking for "proof" if the tickets were legitimate or not, the user replied: "Lol. Yes I can send it".

But he quickly added:" If you meet me at my hotel we can have 30 mins of fun and I'll give you the ticket."

The user messaged Abigail on Twitter (Abigail Rudkin)

Abigail told the Echo: "I couldn't believe, I just thought if you're putting it out on Twitter, you're letting people know there are people like that out there and how dangerous it is.

"The experiences people have to go through, not just women, but as a woman being commented on like that, as if I would say yes to something like that.

"Did they think I was going to say yes? Of course not.

"It made me feel a bit sick to be honest.

"You never know if anyone would ever say yes to that and what type of person they are that they are meeting up with for these tickets.

"You could never know what could happen."

In response to the unsolicited message, Abigail reported the incident to Twitter under 'harassment' while explaining the situation to the social media company.

She said: "I reported it to Twitter as it was harassment because it was an unsolicited sexual advance, that's what it came across as.

"I reported it and when it asked me to add more details, I commented saying I was looking for match tickets and there was this unsolicited sexual advance sort of thing.

"And literally within 10 minutes, I got a notification saying 'hi we have reviewed it and there's no issue kind of thing'."

Unfortunately, Twitter said the reported message was not in violation of its rules.

It responded: " "Hello, we're writing to let you know that we didn't find the content you reported to be in violation of our rules.

"We know this is disappointing to hear, as you had reason to report in the first place."

Twitter's response to Abigail (Abigail Rudkin)

Abigail was left feeling "disappointed" by Twitter's lack of action but "sort of expected it".

She said: "Twitter needs to have someone reviewing these things, it feels very automated.

"Sometimes you can get a response back saying they didn't violate anything within a minute and you think how has anyone actually reviewed the whole interaction in that time?"

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