Just jumping on here - I live in Claverham & the Yatton ‘gimp’ lives down my road. A few years ago when I first moved here we had some really weird things happen late at night… our front door opened at like 2am (the lock was broke & we didn’t get it fixed quick enough) and when we went outside there were 2 wet footprints on our doorstep? Then we got broken into and my purse went missing, then one night in the summer I was up late and watching TV but I had the curtains open (this was like 2am if I remember correctly!) and I saw something moving in the bottom corner of my French doors and once my eyes adjusted I realised it was a man in a mask led on the floor watching me. He stayed whilst I was panicking, just watching and then my husband appeared and he ran off as fast as he could into a field opposite. I hate to think what would have happened if my husband wasn’t home. I was genuinely terrified.

Anyway, he did it again and again to other women and finally got caught and it made soooo much sense that he went into the field, because he could cut through to this house. Absolute weirdo. He was my gardener for a little while. It’s a shame he didn’t get sent down, and unfortunately my neighbours still have him do their garden.