Neighbour issue - does she have a case to ask for compensation?

[NeighbourIssue]

Just quick details

Victorian conversion with 3 flats.

Neighbour has kept a suitcase in communal hallway since Christmas.
Time and time again we asked her to move it. it was always next week...

Suitcase falls one day after we got in, if we had been out it would have blocked the door, preventing all three flats from getting into the building. Giant weight, could have hurt my child if it had fallen on it.

That day we moved it to the bin cupboard.

5 days later, neighbour knocks on door and says it was stolen.
Today (2 weeks on) she says she wants compensation as there were 'Dolce & Gabanna' dresses in there and it was thousands of pounds of clothes.

I just kept repeating she had left them there for 5 months, it fell and could have blocked us all in.

She said we should have knocked on her door and asked for it to be taken in. Basically what we had done for 5 months.

Does she have a leg to stand on?

(ps name changed for this post)

Surely she has a duty of care to her own belongings and if she has abandoned that duty of care such that she leaves items in a comunal hallway creating a hazard and ignoring requests to move these items - why couldn't she put it back in her own flat if the contents were so valuable?

Surely it is unreasonable to expect others to place a higher duty of care to her items than she does herself?

for a few months it was by her front door and yes, I did have to keep turning it to give me space to go down the stairs with the pram to half block her door, and every timek to blocking the hallway.

And it was stupidly heavy, i wasn't going to carry it up the stairs again when she put it at the bottom in the hallway... it actually hurt my legs a few times it fell on me... fortunately it didn't fall on the babies in the block.

in the unsecured storage cupboard is already a bike (no idea which flat it belongs to) and a table which also came from her flat and the other neighbours moved it to there after many months and notes of it also being in the communal hallway... so knowing how bikes get nicked in the blink of an eye we thought that was safe as the bike has been there a while

Putting it in an unsecured bin cupboard sounds a bit mean regardless of how much she ignored you.

As opposed to leaving it in an unsecured hall way?

It sounds a bit like a trap... it is funny how it is now 'missing...'

I would not assume the case was even stolen. Sounds like a yarn. And if it had designer dresses in it there is no way it would have been left in the hallway for 5 months.