For context, neighbour moved in 2 years ago and has been a tremendous PITA.
Everyone on the street has allocated parking, we have 2 spaces. She basically stolen one of them, despite title deeds showing it’s ours. And she parks in a way that blocks us into our other main space. She NEVER moves the car. The police won’t do anything, it’s a civil matter and we’ve tried to speak to her about it, but she just screams and closes the door.
Thats how it started and in 2 years she has videoed my children playing in the garden, stares at us when we’re on the street and has made false allegations to the police including that we tried to run her over and smashed her tyres.
Police have been utterly useless. They let them constantly lie about us and tiptoe round them.
Anyway last year she threw a rock at our car and damaged it. She spent 2 months dodging knocks, calls and letters from the police. The police assigned a new officer (after I complained about the one we’d been assigned) who was very no-nonsense, and eventually got her into an interview and charged her.
It went to court today, I took the day off to sit in the public gallery. She didn’t turn up. Her solicitor said that she has been diagnosed with general anxiety disorder a few days ago and wasn’t well enough to go out of the house, and wouldn’t be able to until her new anti-anxiety medication kicked in in about 4 weeks. The magistrates accepted it. I was furious as she is not anxious enough to come out the house and verbally abuse me and my children. Apparently the doctors note didn’t say if she was unfit to attend, but it was accepted and adjourned until March
Anyway, I returned home and a few hours later my DH was taking DS out to play football. She appeared from the ginnal on the street, filmed DH and DS (she does this often, even though we never ever respond) and cackled as they walked down the street as if to mock us that she didn’t turn up to court (she’d have known I was there as her solicitor approached me). All of this is on camera
Im absolutely furious - surely she can’t claim that she is too ill to go to court when she can go to the shops (she had shopping bags) that very same day then come out and fill my son.
Is there anything I can do? I know she will find a way to adjourn it as many times as she can. I’m absolutely sick of her piss taking and attempts to evade justice.