If you have any information, dashcam or CCTV footage which could help to identify the man, please call 101 and give the reference 57 of 26 June," he said. "We’re keeping an open mind as to whether the report is linked to previous incidents in which a similarly-dressed man caused alarm to people in the Claverham and Yatton areas. Neighbourhood officers are following up on the incident and carrying out extra patrols.Īn image of the man in the suit, taken by the victim (Image: BBC) Officers carried out a search of the area but found no trace of the man. “She described him as more than six feet tall and slim and said the incident had caused her alarm and distress. I think we were lucky as I was there with her but wouldn’t wanna know what would happen if it was a younger girl on her own at night and see that, we were blessed that we were so close to her house," he added.Īvon and Somerset police have confirmed they are investigating the incident and said they are 'keeping an open mind' about whether the latest case is connected to the previous incidents which left residents of villages between Claverham and Yatton scared to go out at night.Īn Avon and Somerset police spokesman said: “Police were called just after 1am on Sunday (June 26) by a woman reporting seeing a man dressed in a black latex body suit and wearing a mask on Yatton High Street near the Claverham Road roundabout.
"We then contacted the police to make them aware of someone walking around doing that. He clearly knew we were there, so I just told Kiera to run and we sprinted down the alleyway and back to her house and made sure the guy wasn’t chasing us.
GIMP SUITS FULL
"As we were talking I looked at the roundabout as I thought I had seen something, then in the pitch-black was this bloke in a full latex gimp suit walking towards us from out of nowhere. "We were alking back towards Keira's house when we approached the alley which enters into her estate," Lewis told Somerset Live. Lewis Webb, 21, and Kiera Elston, 19, were on their way home from Bristol and had got a taxi to the co-op in Yatton, and arrived there at around 1am.
No one was ever charged, but the incidents stopped - until, it seems, last Saturday night. There were 14 separate incidents three or four years ago of a man in a gimp suit frightening people in the dark in the villages of Yatton and Claverham - the last one reported was in July 2019 just before police arrested a man in connection with the cases.įrom 2019: Police review all calls to village as part of inquiry into man in gimp suit Now people living in the Yatton area, near Bristol, are now coming to terms with the possibility that the man who terrorised them during 2018 and into 2019 has returned.
A young couple ran home terrified in a North Somerset village at the weekend, after a man dressed in a full latex 'gimp' suit appeared out of the darkness.
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