‘I was assaulted and stalked by the Polish builder’

A Polish builder seriously assaulted a woman while working on her flat and then stalked her for months, a court heard. Marcin Szczepaniak, 35, allegedly attack the woman between 1 January and 15 March last year and harassed her for five months afterwards. The woman says she had asked him to do work on her bathroom but he became ‘too friendly’, grabbing her bottom when giving her a hug. He asked to come round to cook for her but gave…