Couple murdered by neighbour over parking row

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Can't help think of the poor couple who were stabbed to death by their neighbour over a parking space last year. Their children were in bed asleep.

The neighbour has been found guilty this week. He was never going to get away with it. He went home and phoned the police and told them what he had done. Very hard to understand how he couldn't have cared less about their children or his own children or going to prison.

Anyway got me thinking have you ever had really terrible arguments with neighbours that escalated. Have you ever put up and shut up because you were or are afraid of the neighbours and don't want any trouble.

Apparently parking spaces are really high on the list of neighbour arguments. I guess you never really expect to be killed but these days does it make you wary?

My neighbour threatened to set fire to our house and tried to do so after I reported him to social serves for neglecting his 9 year old to the point I thought he was 6.

He lost his kid and worked out it was me. Absolute nightmare.

Anyway. He's in prison now for attempted murder on someone else and he didn't own the house so he's never coming back.

We live in a lovely village (believe it or not) and we've had a lot of support from friends in the village and other neighbours. Couldn't have done it without them .

I think that case is awful though. He's on camera and Everything

There's something about cars that make people go quite mad. It's really strange

I've been following this closely as we were once in a similar situation. A narrow new build terraced street where everyone newly had one allocated space.

Our next door neighbour was absolutely nuts about the parking situation and did countless horrific things to us. The police were absolutely hopeless and it proper pisses me off when people on here suggest calling the police all the damn time. They were absolutely useless and if anything escalated the situation.

We had to trade our house in to the builder in order to get out.

It affected every aspect of our lives. We were constantly worried we were going to see them at the supermarket or that they would come to where we worked.

I used to have to collect dd from nursery and then wait at my sisters for dh to finish work so we could go home together. That way not only was it safer but then we only had one car in the street.

My neighbour is evil. She assaulted me, in front of my 2 young children.

I would love to move but its just to expensive (stamp duty etc).

I still have anxiety about it :-(

A few years back a woman was murdered in London by her male neighbour - problems with the shared drive.

Makes you think of all the parking threads on here where posters whip up the drama without thinking that this is someone’s real life

Maybe this story is something we should all think about the next time people start suggesting weird and wonderful suggestions for posters to wind up their neighbours

Parking is a major source of stress for many. As a pp has described even new builds will often only have 1 space or the builder will claim a garage is a space for larger properties. Older terraced streets are a free for all and people get very territorial about "their space".

Quite often with neighbour disputes it starts as something innocuous and spirals from there.

I can only see parking wars getting worse when we all need to be charging them.

Parking problems cause so much hassle.

My thoughts are with the families.

There was a similar incident in Dublin, a young mother picked up a kitchen knife and savagely stabbed a man who parked in her spot, the area was ripe for parking wars while her DC ate breakfast metres away.

It was an affluent area too.

@BunnyMum2000 That's awful. I'm sorry.

My neighbour was murdered by a knob who was envious of him.
Did 6 years in prison.

Neighbour is still dead. Twat now has a life.
No justice.

Anyone else think if he had stabbed Mrs Chapple alone then he would have got away with it on the grounds of MH issues?

I think the bastard faked giving his army serial Id when arrested, to make it look like he had PTSD.

The more housing is built on top of each other and no-one has space or privacy the more social problems we see .

@QuidditchThroughtheAges I missed your 1st post. Horrible man.

my 18month old car was keyed on all panels.

6months later three of the (steel) wheels were nicked and it was left dropped into the ground. I needed it to get to work (doctor)

all due to parking.

The dispute was that I asked the mgt company & council to intervene to stop my idiot neighbour parking a fleet of ice cream vans each evening in the garden (actually in the flower beds) in front of our block of flats so he could charge them overnight. There was also noise from their electrical systems.

He only had one parking space and there was a no commercial vehicles clause and do not trash the gardens clause in the lease for the property he had just bought.

I got the last laugh though as he also failed to grasp that you actually needed to pay your mortgage so was repossessed.

He didn't have PTSD.

He said he did but the doctor who testified for his own defence said he didn't.

Where I grew up you didn't fight back or kick up a fuss and you sure as shit didn't call the police. You kept your head down and avoided antagonising the families that ran the estate.

That way you only got robbed and got your windows put through when their kids were bored.

We live in a decent place now and if there was an issue I'd feel safe to politely raise it.

Although according to the court report 'Two forensic psychiatrists concluded Reeves was not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or psychosis, but diagnosed him with moderate and mild depression respectively'.

Bloody hell. These stories are shocking !

We have trouble with neighbour noise, really impinging on our lives. The thing is that I'd report them to social services if I didn't live here.

It's a couple with a son and daughter. The woman is all 'love you' when outside but telling the children to 'shut the fuck up' inside. She also says the man has a drink problem and she doesn't leave him alone with the children (I heard her telling someone), but she does leave them. The man is scary and aggressive and we've seen him grab the boy and chase the children.

We're planning to move

We were once renting and a lady across the street had her daughter visit and she parked across our driveway (we didn't know whose car it was at this point). The way our driveway was arranged was sort of on a diagonal so even though she was (barely) away from the dropped curb we couldn't get the cars out easily. My dh left a polite notice detailing this.

Neighbour went ape shit, hammering on our door and screaming that it wasn't a dropped curb (fair enough!) and that her daughter had every right to park where she wanted as they owned her house and we were only renting. When we told her to fuck off leave she then shouted that we were only renting and as it wasn't our house she could stand on the property whenever she wanted 🤷🏻‍♀️ she also said she knew the landlord and said she was going to phone him.....landlord had no idea who she was! We called the police in the end as she wouldn't leave.

The thing is we knew she was ALLOWED to park there it was more that it made things difficult for us. She only had to move forward a couple of feet! Total overreaction!

YABU for not calling social services about 2 children in need.

Agreed with the above. Please contact SS about those poor scared children.

My former neighbour was 6ft 7' and used to park a minibus outside (no restricted parking at that time).

A fair number of times, the minibus was blocking someone in by the time that cars had moved position a few times. People used to knock on my door, on the bounce, all the time and emboldened when I opened it as they were usually a lot bigger than I am.

I thoroughly enjoyed waiting for them to draw breath so I could send them to my neighbour's door. I'd watch them go there, adrenaline pumping, aggression built up by shouting at me, only to see their reaction when the behemoth opened the door to them and they were part way through yelling the odds about the minibus.