Hi, As a regular walker in Sydenham and Dulwich wood I wanted to alert you all to a problem encountered this morning. Whilst walking my dogs in the wood late this morning, I ran into what appeared to be a homeless man in his late 20s sleeping rough under the foot bridge off Cox's Walk. Unfortunately, as we encountered eachother I was looking at my mobile phone. He followed me through the wood, picking up his pace to match mine. Luckily, I bumped into a lovely couple who called the police as I moved on. Despite repeated calls to him, he would not stop following me. And he was by his nature more than threatening. The incident has been reported to the local police and I am waiting for their feedback as to whether they found the man. In the meantime, be careful. He wasn't put off by the fact I was with a German Shepherd. My thanks to the kind couple I ran into who called the police having witnessed what was happening.
