Stalker lay in wait on top of woman’s bed
JAILED Vincent Cutsworth
A WOMAN has told how she hid in terror after realising an obsessed stalker was lying on her bed.
The 24-year-old victim was resting in the spare room when Vincent Cutsworth entered her house through an unlocked door.
She realised he was there when his phone rang.
After barricading herself in the woman silently texted relatives to call 999.
She told Grimsby crown court: “He was lying on my bed. I was in the spare bedroom in my underwear.
“The police turned up and he was arrested on my bed. He was just waiting... it has been a nightmare.”
Cutsworth, 54, of Riby, who also bombarded the woman with texts and calls in 2018, admitted stalking.
He got a three-month suspended jail term, and a five-year restraining order.
SAT at a table with champagne and caviar and surrounded by German officers, you would never think these RAF heroes were prisoners of war.
Flight Sergeants Edward Rodgers and Cyril Bartlam were treated to the convivial gathering in France by Panzer tank commander Hans von Luck.
The pair were part of a three-man crew in a Blenheim bomber from 40 Squadron that left RAF Wyton, Cambs, for a raid over St Valery, Normandy, in June 1940.
It was shot down and they bailed out – but colleague Sgt David Dorris went down with the plane as it crashed.
Hauptmann von Luck’s division had occupied the region days before and the airmen parachuted into his position. He said to have told them: “You are in luck. You’ll be staying with me for a while.”
The photo of the men at the table was unearthed by a German historian. It has been digitally colourised by graphic designer Richard Molloy. Another shows Edward and a grinning Cyril surrounded by enemy troops after they were captured. Andy Saunders, the editor of German military history magazine Iron
Cross, said:
“Hospitality extended towards captured RAF airmen at this stage of the war was not unusual, although I suspect this didn’t extend to champagne and caviar.
“Hospitality to one’s captives was also extended by the British. But it became less common as the war progressed and attitudes hardened.
“This photo, though, is remarkable.
“These men, adversaries, seem relaxed together.
“Almost in celebration, and yet the
Cyril grins alongside Edward and German captors war was then raging at its fiercest.” Edward’s son Brendan added: “My father told me he had been well-treated by the Germans but he never mentioned champagne and caviar. I have never seen the photo before. It’s extraordinary.”
The airmen were sent to a PoW camp in Germany. Edward was then taken to Stalag Luft VI in Lithuania. During the winter of 1944/45, he was one of hundreds of PoWs sent on a “death march” west across Poland and Germany as the Russians advanced from the east.
Edward, from Dublin, died in 1986 aged 82. Cyril, from Broseley, Shrops, passed away in 1997. Von Luck died the same year in Hamburg.