I'm a bit worried that I've got something on my name for reporting domestic violence several times when I was legitimately concerned for a woman and her children's safety.
My old neighbours had a very volatile relationship, with screaming matches, however it was mainly violent talk, threats and lots of slamming about, this included violent sounding talk towards the children.
There was also lots of what I would consider neglect of the their children, we witnessed their toddlers using equipment like trampoline without a net when they were tiny enough for it to be dangerous. The worst was they appeared to let them play in one of those large paddling pools alone. We also had one of the elder children ask us to come into our house after school in middle of winter as they didn't have a coat and it was raining and they'd been locked out, this happened multiple times. There's more but the list is long.
They appeared to be drug users certainly they smoked so much weed particularly near our kids bedroom windows that eventually we complained to the housing association as the children couldn't open their windows in the summer or get to sleep. They did get some kind of community order for this and the smoking stopped they seemed to go for multiple walks a day without the young kids so I assume they smoked it then.
When the arguments and shouting got particularly bad I did report it to the police I can't recall how many times probably 3.
We weren't the only ones to call the police on them other neighbors did too and told us they did.
Anyway I became a bit worried about them targeting us if we called the police, there was one day that was particularly bad shouting and screaming and I was on the phone to my sister (who lives close by) and I said what do I do I can't just leave it as that would be the day he kills one of them. But I'm scared the police will say it was us. They had already thrown eggs at our back windows. So my sister volunteered to report this time.
When my sister called the police after taking her details they said oh it's not you that is reporting this is it it's you sister who lives at X.
So this leads me to think that there's some kind of flag on her's and my name's....also it made me wonder could it be on my record and how do I find out?
If I do have something I will be livid and fight it every inch of the way especially as I probably only reported 1 in every 100 incident that I heard.
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could I have a Criminal record for reporting domestic violence?
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Sickoffamilydrama · 23/06/2021 17:27
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