@IcakethereforeIam yeah the fact that he had been in the house was the bit that did it for me. I remember seeing the neatly propped up letter on one of the bottom steps and just backtracking straight out of the house.
I rang the builders first to make sure they hadn't put it there. They hadn't. Then rang the police and sat locked in my car until they came out. The two police women checked the entire house top to bottom, I even made them check the loft! Then they went off to put the fear of god in him I presume. He admitted to them he'd been in and put the letter on the stairs.
I do remember waiting for the builders the next morning and giving them the absolute bollocking of their life. I came home a free times in the following week's at random times and every time I did the builders had learnt their lesson and the door was locked. But the whole thing spooked me for a while and I'd have to check everywhere when I got home.
I'd forgotten how spooked it made me at the time.
It does make me look at films that practically encourage this sort of "romantic" behaviour in a completely different light these days.
As for the absolute whack job in the opening post I'm sure he'll be in the news again at some point in the future for something much worse than his current offerings. Because he Obviously doesn't see anything wrong with assuming that All women want to be scared shitless when going about their daily lives because we all secretly fantasize about getting raped by a stranger.
And having just watched the channel 4 prog about incels I'm genuinely worried for the young girls and women who are having to deal with all this with social media thrown into the mix.
I can't think why there's a record number of teenage girls opting out of being female at all!!!!!!