Two minutes into the Netflix hit Baby Reindeer, John knew he couldn’t watch any more. The drama opens with Donny, the main character, hesitantly walking into a police station, stumbling over his words as he tries to explain he is being stalked by a woman. The scene swept John back to 1998 and the first time he tried to tell police in west London that he was being stalked.
“That could have been me on the TV, nervously going, ‘Hello, excuse me,’ ” he says. “When I told the first officer I was like, ‘How can I say this… What do you do about someone constantly sending you mail and ringing your buzzer?’
