Exes family watching me outside contact centre

[Newmum1998]

Please tell me if I am over reacting..
Ex was abusive and I went to police, went to court and got a non harassment order put in place so he’s not allowed to contact me or approach me for one year
We have a child together and he applied to court for contact and they have given him supervised visits in contact centre
He is to arrive at centre 15 minutes before I drop our child off and wait in centre 15 minutes after I pick our child up so there is absolutely no contact between us
however, a member of exes family has been waiting outside the centre in his car, as close as he can possibly get to the entrance to the centre (so it doesn’t matter where I park he has full view of the doors to the centre so sees me regardless ) and has been watching me as I enter the centre with my child, then when I leave and watching me again when I come back to collect my child and leave again . He literally stays in the same spot the full time and does not move his car
He hasn’t tried to approach me or say anything to me he is just watching me the whole time and I am finding it incredibly intimidating and uncomfortable
I feel it is defeating the purpose a bit of the 15 minute rule and I mentioned it to staff and they said they would put it in report but there is nothing they can do to stop it
Am I being unreasonable to find this behaviour so intimidating
also this family member would probably be the person to do hand overs if contact progresses to unsupervised

That sounds awful, and very frightening for you. I think your ex will say that they are providing the transport and try to get around it that way.

I'd be tempted to get someone else to drop off to the contact centre for you, if that is allowed?

Well done for getting out of there.

Do they have a legitimate reason for being there, such as your ex not being able to drive? Still really horrible of them to watch you.

There hasn’t been contact with me and my ex for nearly a year now (apart form through solicitors and when I’ve seen him in court) but when we last had contact he was able to drive and had his own car

However, if that’s not the case anymore Ex is to arrive before me and leave after me so why couldn’t this relative just drop him off and leave and come back like why would he want to sit in his car for an hour and a half
also where he is parked the car park was nearly empty and he parked as close as he possibly could to the doors and he was actually way over the line so he had full view of the doors to the centre as there is a wall blocking the view slightly when you park properly in the space so I do think he purposely is sitting there to watch me and make me feel uncomfortable