An immediate family member is currently going through harassment from their neighbour, spanning back to beginning of this year.
The family member is a council housing tenant, the neighbour owns their home. The harassment, reports, false allegations to the council have increased and will not stop. Their end goal is for the family member to get evicted from the council property.
The police have been contacted, harassment log has been put into place, however they have been quite up front that unless it gets physical, there isn't much they can do.
The neighbour now has 3 cameras up to record the family members house, one of which at the back of the house. She will cover this up by changing the position of the camera to only their garden etc. if the family member complains. The council seem to be no help, the police have pushed the family member to go back to the council multiple times, but the council keep accepting the false reports, calls etc. from the neighbour, they have realised most are just her trying to get action taken on my family member, but they have offered no support, no push back on the constant calls/contact from the neighbour.
Family member has no option of moving home unfortunately, so we are very stuck on what to do. They have a younger child in the property also. The harassment will not stop, they feel trapped in their own home, the constant panicking and anxiety over it is just ruining them. What are our options? Is there anything the council can do? Or is this impossible due to the neighbour not being a council tenant?
My family member does not retaliate - they have even gone through all correct channels to have a privacy fence implemented, this was put up but of course the neighbour complained straight away. They have tried to ignore, but it's getting impossible to do this as its clear the neighbour will not stop.
It feels like we are all out of options.