‘Don’t feel safe’: Emma Raducanu stalker’s creepy notes revealed

Creepy notes left for teenage tennis phenom Emma Raducanu at her home have been revealed after her stalker dodged jail this week.

Creepy notes left for tennis phenom Emma Raducanu at her home have been revealed after her stalker dodged jail on Wednesday.

The British teen was left scared to outside after Amrit Magar tracked down her address and visited her home three times — leaving her several bizarre gifts.

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Magar, 35, was convicted of stalking and was handed a five-year restraining order at Bromley Magistrates Court.

The court heard Raducanu, 19, is “on edge” since the stalking ordeal and she no longer feels safe in her own home because of Magar.

In a victim statement read out in court, Raducanu said: “Since all this has happened, I have felt creeped out.

“I feel very apprehensive if I go out, especially if I am on my own.

“Because of this I feel like my freedom has been taken away from me. I am constantly looking over my shoulder.

“I feel on edge and worried this could happen again. I don’t feel safe in my own home which is where I should feel safest.

“I want to move to a new house with better security because I am worried he might come back as he knows where my home is.”

Magar was given an 18-month community order, along with 200 hours of unpaid work and a curfew for eight weeks between 9pm and 6am — monitored by an electronic tag.

He was banned from contacting Raducanu and her parents for five years and was banned from attending any sports grounds where the tennis ace is in competition or training.

Magar is also not to go within one mile of her home address, after he took her dad’s shoe on his final visit as a “souvenir”.

He was also made to pay costs of AU$938 as well as a $178 victim surcharge for stalking the tennis ace.

Amrit Magar, 35, leaves Bromley Magistrates' Court. Picture: Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire

Emma Raducanu of Britain. Photo by Cesar Gomez/Jam Media/Getty Images

Emma’s dad Ian Raducanu added that the incident had “opened the eyes” of the family to “how exposed they are and how easy it is to find where they live”.

The family are also concerned that the incident could lead to “copycat offences” in the future.

Magar did not attend a probation appointment ahead of his sentencing.

Sentencing him, District Judge Sushil Kumar said: “There was some degree of planning and that was shown by you walking 23 miles to her address.

“But I accept that on the first occasion you went to Bromley you were unaware of where she lived so there was not a great deal of planning.

“It is very much apparent considerable changes to one’s lifestyle have been considered and are in train, not least hiring private security but also moving house.”

The married man left bizarre notes and gifts at her home — and made off with her father’s trainer — mistakenly believing it was the 19-year-old’s.

Former Amazon delivery driver Magar travelled to the South East London suburb where the teenager lives with her parents, Ian and Renee, and asked strangers for directions to her home.

He is said to have become interested in the Grand Slam champion while watching her on television during lockdown.

Undated handout photo issued by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of a map illustrating the 23 miles Amrit Magar had walked from Edgware, north London to meet tennis player Emma Raducanu. Picture: CPS/PA Wire

Undated handout photo issued by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of a note Amrit Magar sent to tennis player Emma Raducanu. Picture: CPS/PA Wire

In November, he turned up at her house with a bouquet of flowers and a bizarre note signed by him, with his wife’s name, Brina, and their dog’s name, Logan, also scrawled at the bottom.

The note for the US Open champ read: “Nothing to say, but you deserve love”.

He was confronted by her parents — but told them he was a delivery driver dropping off gifts from someone else.

Then in December 2021, he posted a red envelope through the family’s letterbox with a crude hand-drawn map of his journey from North London, which he undertook by foot.

Next to the map he had written: “23 miles walked for you!”

Two days later on December 4, he strung fairy lights and Christmas decorations onto a tree in the family’s garden before posting leftover trinkets and spare batteries through their letterbox.

After realising the porch was open he grabbed Emma’s dad’s trainer, believing it was hers.

But her dad, Ian, said he recognised Magar from doorbell camera footage and pursued him in his car.

In a statement, Mr Raducanu said: “I received a notification on my phone from the Nest doorbell. It said someone was at the front of the house.

“I went outside and could see a male stood on the pavement. He began running away.”

Mr Raducanu then followed Magar to a nearby bus stop where he called the police.

It’s believed Emma is now looking for homes with state-of-the-art security and tennis courts after the stalking hell.

Seval Dunn, defending, said on Wednesday: “He appears to me to be a fairly mild-mannered man.

“He has assured me nothing of this nature will ever happen again. He assured me he did not wish for Miss Raducanu to suffer in the way she describes suffering.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission