Caught neighbours using my garden

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I have a block of flats next to my house and I thought for a while things have been moved in my garden and it seemed a bit weird. I’ve got a lock on the gate and it’s always locked. So over the weekend I’ve installed a small out door camera under my guttering which records the whole back garden.

So I’ve come home tonight after work (I work the late shift) and found two cigarette butts on the path by my seating area. So I checked the camera and the neighbors have climbed my wall and been sitting in my garden from 2pm until 8pm using my seating and table. To say I’m annoyed is an understatement but how to I confront them as they aren’t the friendliest of people at the best of times. So I guess they’ve been doing this since the nice weather began.

Unfortunately it’s not difficult to see i’m out as I have to drive to work and so once my cars not there they obviously know I’m out.

I just don’t know how to approach this as I’m a single woman and just concerned it’ll escalate but I can’t allow this what would you all do? I thought maybe a note through their door asking them to not use it anymore. They haven’t seen the camera but now I wonder how long it’s been going on.

I've read this title in active so much now. When I read it, it sounds like you used a garden to catch your neighbours, like it's a trap.

"Iamthewombat Tue 27-Jul-21 22:39:43
If someone was on my property I would hold them there with my gun until the sheriff arrived.

Where are you living? Dodge city in 1860? "

@TopBlogger

"Iamthewombat Tue 27-Jul-21 22:39:43 If someone was on my property I would hold them there with my gun until the sheriff arrived.

Where are you living? Dodge city in 1860? "

I believe they have Sheriffs in Scotland.

Install a ring camera and when it alarms to let you know there’s someone in your garden ring the police and say it looKs like someone is on your property and could potentially break in.. they would then hopefully be caught in the act..

@FortunesFave definitely no Sheriff's in Scotland! Might be thinking of the Sheriff Court system?

Anticipating Friday night’s update.

Oh PLEASE set up an automatic watering system….one that you can control from your mobile

It has been hot recently and it would be so helpful if your entire garden could get a good soak whilst you’re at work

[This thread/situation has just been mentioned on BBC Radio 2, OJ Borge show.

Wasn't totally listening so not sure they mentioned mumsnet - just 'online forum'

I would plant some nice Holly bushes where they climb over.

DH verbally trespassed a (now former) neighbour back in April and I reported it to the non-emergency police page. Hopefully, you have something like that where you live.

@expat101

DH verbally trespassed a (now former) neighbour back in April and I reported it to the non-emergency police page. Hopefully, you have something like that where you live.

How do you verbally trespass? And did you really report your own DH?

@rattusrattus20

Related, on my walk home earlier this evening i noticed three separate addresses in a neighbouring street (one whose rear gardens back onto a quiet public road, making them, I suppose, a security risk) with spikes of varying sizes on back fences. none had any kind of warning sign. of the three there's one whose legality I very much doubt.

The third pic has a very Gothic look about it. Quite stylish really, if you like that sort of thing. (Shuffles off, having missed the point...)

[quote YerAWizardHarry]@FortunesFave definitely no Sheriff's in Scotland! Might be thinking of the Sheriff Court system?[/quote]
There most definitely are sheriff's in Scotland. Who do you think presides over the sheriff court?

If you don't believe me, here is a list

www.judiciary.scot/home/judiciary/judicial-office-holders/sheriffs/sheriffs-1/sheriffs

(Granted they aren't anything like the the sheriffs in Westerns, but they exist)

Grrr. Autocorrect added that apostrophe! Apologies to any grammar pedants reading my last post. It would annoy me too, reading it.

@expat101 how on earth do you verbally trespass? Your husband shouted into someone’s garden and you reported it to the police? What on earth??

[quote FunMcCool]@expat101 how on earth do you verbally trespass? Your husband shouted into someone’s garden and you reported it to the police? What on earth??[/quote]
🤣 It means to give a verbal trespass warning.

@rattusrattus20

Related, on my walk home earlier this evening i noticed three separate addresses in a neighbouring street (one whose rear gardens back onto a quiet public road, making them, I suppose, a security risk) with spikes of varying sizes on back fences. none had any kind of warning sign. of the three there's one whose legality I very much doubt.

Where do you live???!!?

@YerAWizardHarry of course there are sheriffs! They're the judges in sheriff courts.

I do hope the OP’s neighbours don’t read the Mirror.

Its a bit crap your good neighbour didnt mention this to you sooner tbh!
Glad you've put everything in place to stop these vile people tresspassing on your property, I would be livid!

@Pottedpalm - SW London. it's a pretty ok area, but like a lot of places in London I suppose there are plenty of streets where >£1m houses are right next to or opposite various forms of social housing.

The cheek!

Thankyou yes that is exactly what it says. DH caught neighbour with camera on our property trying to get out, and he was told again to stay away.

So this time I followed it up with reporting on the non emergency police page where we live. Hopefully the poster has a similar resource to use.

Sorry wasn’t allowed to quote broken biscuits reply ^^

Ring camera. You can actually speak to them via a speaker on the camera. It will pick them up on your phone. Then you can ask them you can see what they are doing and to leave or you will call the police. They sound like utter scum.