Attack warning for home sellers

Police are advising women to try to avoid showing prospective buyers around their homes after two sex attacks in a week believed to be by the same man.

The smartly dressed, polite man, in his late thirties or early forties, raped a woman at Chingford, east London, and sexually assaulted another at Waltham Abbey, north London, last week, after turning up without an appointment to ask to view houses for sale.