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accost

verb as in approach for conversation or solicitation

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Ring doorbell footage from a neighbour was also played to the jury showing two women approaching and leaving the McCanns' home on 7 December 2024, the same night Mr and Mrs McCann were "accosted".

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Two women accused of stalking Madeleine McCann's family turned up outside her parents' home and accosted them, a court has heard.

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Twining said he and his wife have been accosted in a restaurant and at the grocery store over his presence at the vigil and the incorrect assumption that he’s supportive of white nationalists.

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Then in his 40s, he’s shown verbally accosting young employees, some of whom were teenagers at the time.

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“What is the reasonable suspicion for him to be accosted?”

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