A British woman, who jumped from a hotel balcony in India believing she was going to be raped, has spoken to Sky News to warn women about the dangers of travelling alone.
Jessica Davies, 31, was forced to leap from a hotel balcony after two men tried to force their way into her room.
At the time she had been preparing to leave the city of Agra, where she had been to see the Taj Mahal.
Her terrifying experience, which has left the hotel owner facing a charge of harassment, follows an increasing number of gang rapes and sex attacks, including one in which a student died after being subjected to horrific attack on a bus.
It has led to protests and demands to end sexual violence against women in the country.
Miss Davies, a dental hygienist from Greenwich, South East London, told Sky New's Lorna Dunkley she felt it was important to highlight what was happening in India.
She said: "I'm lucky. I'm not another statistic. I actually survived. I wasn't raped or worse.
"I've got a voice and I want to use it to say there is no shame about speaking out on sexual violence and harassment.
"I think there is a problem in India. There is a taboo against women who are assaulted sexually and this needs to be made more aware. My hope is that help is made available."
She said she had received no warning signs.
She said: "I had been staying in the hotel for two nights and ... on my final evening I had arranged with the hotel owner for a taxi driver to take me to a station the next morning.
"At a quarter to four he was knocking on my door. When I opened the door he was stood there with two bottles of oil and approaching the door as if to come in saying he wanted to give me a massage and a shower.
"I was trying to push him out of the room. I managed to push him back, lock and bolt the door, but he continued to scratch and bang on the door.
The incident happened at the Hotel Agra Mahal in Agra "After about ten minutes I started kicking the door and screaming really loudly for someone to come and help me, but nobody came.
"Then there was a power cut in the room so everything went completely dark and there was no phone.
"After about half an hour another man joined him outside and there were two men trying to break into the room and I knew there was no choice but to jump down from the balcony."
She got into a rickshaw and told the driver to take her to a police station but another rickshaw driver pulled up alongside and told him to take her back to the hotel.
She ran off but the first rickshaw driver caught up with her and took her to the police station where he translated for the next three or four hours.
She said had asked the owner for help with booking flights on a few occasions but didn't believe she had done anything to give him the impression he could take advantage of her.
She was also sure she had done everything possible to follow all the recommended safety advice.
"I took care of myself," she said. "Everyday all my friends at home knew where I was. If I was getting a late train I was trying to keep people informed.
"I was putting photos up of my journey so I wasn't unaccounted for. I dressed appropriately. I stayed in my room at night if I was on my own, I didn't walk around at night in the dark by myself.
"The only thing I could have done differently was not let him know that I was going to get an early train. These people are opportunists. If they see an opportunity they are going to take it."
She said she would go back, but if she did, it would be as part of a group.
"It's a fascinating country. What happened to me, doesn't represent India. It represents a problem in India. I would go back, but I wouldn't go back on my own, I'd go back in a group."
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