Teenagers hanging about outside house

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They belong next door, although they actually don’t even live there anymore. 16 & 17 - one lives in a shared homeless accommodation and the other has been allocated a homeless flat. They come round and hang about outside for hours making noise, sitting on my wall and being generally intimidating. I have had ongoing issues with these neighbours for years and I am usually easygoing and ignore most of their antics but when my own teen is unable to leave the house due to fear it really has gone too far. I’m scared of retaliation though so I really don’t know how best to approach. Talking to neighbours doesn’t work, talking to the teens usually gets met with ‘fuck off bitch’ or similar. It’s not really a police matter and the kids already have social work involved but as they are hanging about their own parents house being anti social in not sure anything can be done.

Hi OP. What vile shits. Could you top your wall with something, under the guise of dissuading birds from perching there? So spikes or crushed glass 😄

Antisocial behaviour is a police matter, as is intimidating behaviour and abusive language. Report on 101 and keep a diary, or get a ring doorbell. Police should take it seriously and move them on.

I’m not sure they can be moved on, they are outside their parent’s house. It’s a shared path leading to out doors and they just hang about there. The other problem with reporting it is that they are likely to assume correctly that it was me and I’m scared of the repercussions.

I have such total sympathy because I have awful issues where I live on an intermittent but on going basis mainly with children and young teenagers.

Over the last 6 years I've had police involvement but getting the police involved and understanding the issues involved is hard work and some of the individual officers don't understand the situation.

My experience is that once the community police, who know who the young people are, get involved then they will be effective.

I also have had great help from the Anti -social behaviour unit of the local council. Does your council have one of those? IIf so please contact them.They have been really helpful to me .