NC for this.
Over the past couple of months a neighbour has been causing problems at my place of work. I work for an elderly relative at their house and love my job. It works around my dc, health conditions and various other bits and bobs that mean it's a mutually beneficial arrangement.
The neighbour has taken a strong dislike to me doing anything outside the house. I have been verbally abused, sprayed with the hose pipe, watched, stared at, and told to stop working. I am essentially just gardening when outside, but washed garden furniture once and twice in the past year have jet washed the drive. After being sprayed with the hose I reported what had been going on to the police. They spoke with the neighbours who denied everything.
Since then their son has been phoning and visiting my relative complaining about me and demanding an apology for reporting his parent. The police have spoken to him and told him to stop contacting my relative.
Now things have ramped up and the neighbour has removed plants from my relatives side of the small fence that borders the properties. The plants were in their bin. They denied all knowledge. They live in the middle of nowhere with no through traffic and neither my relative nor the neighbours have visitors who would do this or have any reason to do this. They have complained that due to my relative's house being slightly uphill from theirs that water runs on their drive when it rains or the plants are watered. The plants were replaced by me and yesterday I noticed they were wet when nothing else was wet, there was water on the neighbour's drive but none on my relative's drive and the plants were looking crispy. I only planted them on Saturday evening and they were beautiful and lush plants. Now they are half dead. All of them. I suspect they have been poisoned. My relative is severely disabled and can't water them or do anything to them so it can only have been the neighbour. I watered them yesterday with a small amount of water and the neighbour came out freaking out that there was water on their drive and started taking photos of the small wet patches.
They have previously said they are recording every time I do anything like water the garden. Yesterday was a hot, sunny day and the small wet patches were gone in less than 10 minutes.
My relative is fearful of what they will do next.
The police have been told of all incidents and there are now 7 instances of the neighbour verbally abusing me, spraying me, watching me, removing plants and now poisoning them.
What can/will the police do? How can this be resolved? The police have reassured me that I am doing nothing wrong but it is causing such a lot of stress. My relative's house is adapted for their disability and is the family home plus at their advanced age they do not want to move.