Re True Stories. Man in the Woods, Channel 4, Monday, July 30

THIS programme was about a lady who was "attacked" by a "flasher" in the woods in Beaconsfield and she firmly believed it has ruined her life.

I feel very very sorry for the lady, not because she was flashed at but that it has become the highlight of a life.

I lived in Keep Hill Estate, High Wycombe, from 1936 at the age of five, and my life was peppered with flashers in Keep Hill, Deangarden Woods and Wendover Way.

Not just twice but many times and I could not claim it had any effect whatsoever on my life. Flashers do not attack, they only want to shock or at least have impact. That is all.

There have been more flashers in those areas than squirrels and believe me, there are a lot of squirrels!

I learned over the years to identify the poor twisted souls and called into the police on many occasions to point them out in the mugshots album at the station.

I did become blase in the end and concentrated on the lining quality of the obligatory raincoat in question.

I moved to Princes Risborough in 1966 and although we have flashers here also, I haven't seen one yet but then I am getting older too.

During the war, when there were reputed to be 21,000 American GIs before D-Day, I can honestly say I never saw one of them flash, even when they skipped over the fence and roamed the hills in quantity.

No, I was too young to be caught up in the local scandals of the day.

May I say to the lady of Beaconsfield don't let your life be marred by this!

I am a 70-year-old grandmother who took it all in my stride.

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