Long story but will summarise dh was charged with Assualt and is due in court in a few months time.
He allegedly punched a man.
The man was our neighbour .
The neighbour had lived here for just under a year , he is an alcoholic and regularly beat his partner ( we called the police on multiple occasions ).
Neighbour didn't appreciate us doing so . He would stand at his door (bottom floor in block flats) and watch your every move , aswell as play music stupidly loud with door wide open. All this was annoying but we and other neighbours just kept complaining until a day dh was cutting the grass with dd , dd came upstairs to get a drink then went back down to go to garden the "neighbour" came out his flat and locked the back door and wouldn't open it . This will sound terrible but we have no idea how long for I was feeding and dh was cutting grass no more than 5 minutes but still long enough to scare the life out of us. He suddenly opened door and let her out when I started walking down the stairs to see what had kept her. She was terrified she has asd . He then locked door again with dh and dd outside.
dh wasn't happy at all and wanted to call police I wish to god I had let him. Dd said he just stood there staring at her nothing else thankfully but it creeped us out.
I put it down to being annoyed at lawn mower and wanting to annoy dh.
A few days later we are chatting with another neighbour and he comes out to watch as always. dh says he better not pull any stunt like that again or he will call police. Neighbour tries to attack dh , dh is holding our then 6 week old :(.
A week later dh is out after his friends birthday drinks on way home he bumps into neighbour ,his friend , and his partner few words are exchanged and once again neighbour tries to punch dh . dh grabs him and they both fall . Dh admits he kicked him in the bum which of course he shouldn't have . Neighbour and his partner are claiming dh attacked him.
police came an hour later took dh away with no money phone etc charged him and kept him overnight. next morning he had over an hours walk home. They at no point asked what had happened or let dh tell them.
We are both worried sick he has been treated as if he is guilty so much for innocent until proven guilty .
Its affected his job and every aspect of our lives.
I never thought I'd be worrying about something like this is he likely to go to jail ? even a conviction makes me feel sick .