Crazy neighbour, really worried

[sassypants72]

My husband, myself and dd live in an end terrace, we had new neighbors move in about a year ago (they rent). We didn't get off to a great start as one of there sons was kicking a football up at the wall along the side of our house, my husband went and told him off which resulted in the mother kicking off at our front door.

Anyway things have gone from bad to worse. Her 15 year old son has been repeatedly playing really offensive music, really loud and has ignored our attempts at asking him to turn it down (my husband went outside one evening and shouted up at his bedroom window telling him to turn it down). Nothing changed so we reported them to environmental health.

Anyway tonight she has had a Beyoncé song on repeat and very loud all evening, we've tried repeatedly knocking on her door to ask for it to be turned down, but with no answer. She then repeatedly started banging on our joining wall later in the evening. The banging on the wall happens most evenings.

About 1/2 an hour ago she came banging on our door absolutely kicking off at us for repeatedly knocking on her door to ask for the music to be turned down.

Anyway she's now accusing my husband of being a paedophile for shouting up to her son and saying she's going to phone the police and report him !!!

I'm really scared. Anybody who knows my husband would laugh at such an accusation, but surely the police have to take this kind of thing seriously. It could rip our family apart. Dd is only 8 and is very close to both of us, I can't imagine what it would do to her if he had to move out.

I would be careful how you react next, I talk from bitter experience. Our experience started off similar to yours, neighbour with mental health issues, escalating to abuse in the street, courts and restraining orders, he was eventually convicted of harassment in court after a really awful 6 years of hell/abuse/wall banging/shouting/loud music. Unfortunately his landlady was not supportive to our plight, despite being fully aware of everything. We are now a year since court appearances and we are left in a
Position whereby we feel trapped l, moving is impossible as how do we explain everything that happened to potential buyers and sell the house with him still there? Please think carefully about how you react. If I had the benefit of hindsight I would have put up and shut up and probably sold up and moved as far away as possible!

you can always log the threat with the police so if anything was said further down the line there'd be a record.