A couple of months ago, DH and I were in the garden when we heard our next door neighbour having a verbal altercation with their neighbours on the other side. This is a long-standing feud between the two of them; we have so far been
able to stay neutral and friendly with both sides.
During the row we heard raised voices and "are you threatening me?" type stuff but couldn't really hear who was the instigator so we just shuffled inside and stayed out of it.
The same night a police officer called at our door and DH answered while I was upstairs putting dd to bed. (I didn't directly hear the conversation.)
He said he told the PC exactly what we'd heard, which was raised voices but couldn't make out whose was whose. He said the PC seemed annoyed that DH couldn't be more specific about who said what. He said the PC said to him a few times "are you sure that's all you heard?"
Anyway, all was forgotten these last few weeks as we rarely run into the neighbours anyway. Then this afternoon, DH got out of his car and noticed our neighbour out in his front
garden. He said hello and the neighbour looked at DH in disgust and then went back to gardening. Again DH said "Hello X" to which X replied, "you expect me to say hello to you after what you told the police?"
DH told his side which is completely true, that we really didn't drop anyone in it because we hadn't heard all that much anyway. According to the neighbour, the police said that we said they were completely to blame!! And has blamed them for the entire incident based on what DH told them.
So what do we do? It has left me feeling pretty unsettled, but at the same time we can't be sure the neighbour isn't exaggerating what the police said DH said either. Is there any way to find out? Or make a complaint that this specific PC got it wrong? DH deals with police all the time in his line of work and never had anything like this before.
Or should we put it down to the neighbours exaggerating it maybe and let it go?
Just strange that they chose to fall out with us completely over this supposed police statement DH made that he didn't really make?