Young woman describes the horrific moment she woke from an epileptic fit to realise she was being filmed

A young woman has spoken of her horror at waking from an epileptic fit to find she was being filmed by two men.

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by Closer staff |
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Maggie O’Connor, 26, was walking her dog when she had a seizure. Sickeningly, she woke to find two men laughing and filming her.

She said: “With a seizure, you can wet yourself and bite your tongue and these were the two facts that they seemed to find most hilarious as I had wet myself and I had blood down my front.

“They continued filming whilst I was awake and conscious but because of the seizure I was in a really vulnerable position. There was nothing I could do - my legs were too jelly to move and I could not string a proper sentence together. So I just had to sit there whilst they tried to humiliate me by videoing me.”

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Several passers by looked on but failed to come to her aid. It was only when her dog began to growl that the two men moved on.

Maggie, from Colchester in Essex, who’s suffered from epilepsy since she was 16, took to her Facebook account following her ordeal in a bid to track down the two men.

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She added to a newspaper: “Although it’s a disgusting thing they have done I understand why it’s not illegal. I originally wanted to find their names so they could be publicly shamed,” she explained.

“Now I’m not really that fussed because I think they will definitely have seen the story on the news. They will feel ashamed and probably regret what they have done. That’s punishment enough for me.”

Her call for help has been shared over 3,000 times on the social networking site. Essex Police are aware of the incident but are unable to act as “no criminal offence has been committed.”

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