Oxford University students, dressed in their most outrageous clothes, carried banners and flaming torches to 'Reclaim the Night' for women.

The march aimed to make women feel confident about walking alone at night and show them, statistically, they are safe to do so.

Hannah Lynes, from Oxford University Student Union, wanted to confront people's prejudices that women deserve to be attacked if they wear revealing clothing by asking marchers to dress as if they were "asking for it".

Some obliged, wearing cropped tops, platform sandals and short skirts.

Men and women brandished banners reading Women Unite: Reclaim the Night and However we dress, Wherever we go Yes means Yes and No means No.

After the march, Oxford police Supt Cressida Dick gave a talk about crime in the city.

She said: "If you do feel at all confident, then get out there, because your presence as a confident person will make other people feel safer.

"We know that people are unlikely to be assaulted by somebody who is not known to them." People are extremely unlikely to be a victim of a sexual assault by someone who is not known to them."

"I've only been informed of four serious sexual assaults involving someone not known to the victim in three years in Oxford."

She said lots of people reported assaults which happened while they were drunk or walking alone at 5am and no-one had judged them because of this.

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