Neighbour falsely reported me to the police

[Galaxy1989]

Hi all

So I have had issues with my neighbour for a few years.
She has made four false reports to social services four times since September 2023. We know it's her because of things that were said that made it obvious but not obvious enough that it was proof for the police if that makes sense.
We did report to the police the last three times it happened and they logged it but couldn't do anything due to proof.
Luckily social services knew it was all rubbish.

This lady has told so many lies in the past and blamed people for things. She would cause trouble with some other neighbours too but they've now moved.

Anyway a few weeks ago a police officer came round and said she had accused me of sending her threatening letters and funeral plans! I denied this completely because it's not true! But I was honest about how I felt about her because of the trouble she has caused in the past and I said to him I think she's making it up/doing it to herself to cause trouble.
I completely forgot all about it after a few days until this week when two police officers turned up to arrest me!
They didn't luckily because I had an urgent medical appointment but I had to go down to the police station the next day to have an interview under caution.
She recently got another letter and the letter basically is as if it's me that wrote it!
They're investigating but I'm honestly in shock. How can they believe this for a second??
The police officer said an email address was given for the funeral plans in her name so they're going to try and find out whose ip address links to it.
Is there not more they can do??
This is putting so much stress on my health, I'm having chest pains, panic attacks, etc.
I know I havent done anything but it's still awful to be accused and have this pressure and wonder god knows what she will do next!!

How can they attempt to arrest someone when they have zero proof? As if I would write a letter basically admitting it was me if I was writing hate mail!!!

Deffo get a solicitor. And no comment answers don’t mean you’re guilty

Try not to worry, they can't prove you did it if you didn't do it. If the police bring you in for interview again, do ask for the duty solicitor. I can't honestly see it going anywhere though.

No they don’t! This happened to me too! 6 months of hell until they finally admitted she’d accused lots of others snd had a history of it. I also had to go to the station under caution.

I've had similar as in threat of arrest without a good reason. The police can be dicking lazy at times.
I hope you get the peace you deserve and I hope the silly bitch is reprimanded. Can you post on here with the result?

So these 'things' are maybe just circumstantial claims then. Surely, to charge you in something like this they would need to prove by means of fingerprints on the paper, IP address, ink type etc, as I'm sure the cps hasn't got money to burn otherwise.
I sometimes think the police use threats of possible arrest to panic you into saying /doing anything that they can use/twist.

@hazelbiscuit82 If you aren’t aware of how things work in then might I suggest you stop posting? Unless you want to get your jollies on a Friday night by trying to bully an OP.

Sorry this has happened to you OP. I don’t have any advice had similar happen to me, a very mentally ill woman with previous problematic history (for example harassing people and being cautioned!) accused me of something I didn’t do, and I was arrested. I had no record or any police involvement prior to that and I was treated horrendously and it’s traumatised me. I don’t trust the police at all now. Wishing you the best outcome

Possibly they believe you and that only way to catch her as setting this up, is to eliminate you - with the proper police investigation.

I actually think @hazelbiscuit82 deserves an honourable mention for being so offensive as to have every single post deleted. That’s quite an achievement.

tthey dont need evidene to arrest just to charge-if you havent beencharge then they havent got proof

one they work out te ip address isnt yours they'll drop it an hhopefully arrest her

Reminds me of ‘Wicked Little Letters’ too. V bizarre.

Don't be too concerned if the police seem suspicious. That's their job. Most people who are guilty deny having done it, so denying it doesn't count for very much.

Do you have anything in writing from social services confirming that she made multiple false reports? That's the kind of thing that will tip the balance.

I found a threatening letter once planning a burglary & gun crime plan, someone had thrown it out with the recycling & it had just blown away, the police came & took my fingerprints because they lifted all the prints from the letter, it shows all of them so they just wanted to eliminate mine. Anyway it was a plan of exactly what it said in the letter. Quite the day. I think the people who were planning the crime were caught before they had the chance to do anything.

Did you let them interview you without a solicitor? Don’t do that again.

Your son solicitor would have advised you to go no comment until you were back to from bail and the solicitor could see what evidence they have against you.

Remember it’s their job to prove guilt and they will use your words against you. Don’t talk to them without a solicitor again (duty will do) but if you get called in and for some extreme reason don’t have a solicitor go no comment all the way.

They do to charge you.

It's not every printer. As far as I know inkjet printers don't do this, so your home printer may be untraceable, it was devised by Xerox years ago and is present in nearly all laser printers, but not inkjet as far as I know.

I've been running Xerox printing presses for years and every one of them has tiny yellow dots on every page, they are visible but you can only see them clearly when magnified.

Keep a record of everything. If possible ask for something in writing for everything you are accused of. Once you have an enough to go on see a solicitor. It’s unlikely anything can be done, but you never know.

But it will be less stressful and cheaper to move.

Wow this is horrendous and I hope for your sakes resolved very quickly. I’m really glad to see you have never given her access to your Wi-Fi as I was wondering if she had used it.

Please get legal advice.
I've been stitched up in the past over something I didn't do. I had no evidence at the time that I didn't but there was also no proof that I did. They went on 'balance of probabilities'. I really wish I'd asked for the duty solicitor. I put in a complaint afterwards and found proof of what actually happened. They were not interested at all but confirmed I had no criminal record anyway. The whole thing was totally odd. Moral of the story, get legal advice and ask for the duty solicitor if needs be. It's awful that people can cause so much misery by unfound allegations and get away with it. It's also disgusting that the Police don't investigate fully before cautioning.

It’s not a nice experience to be accused of something you haven’t done. But it would be impossible to prosecute people if the police couldn’t follow suspicions as leads. It must grate that she’s reported you to SS and the police didn’t act, but now she’s accused you and they’re knocking on your door, threatening arrest. But it’s not a reflection on your character, just the nature of the particular accusations and the scope for investigation. Try not to take it to heart.

Hopefully the police will track down the IP address (and if it’s hers, will take action against her). But even if they can’t, they still won’t have anything that links you to the accusation except the neighbour’s assertion that she thinks it was you. And while that’s enough to make you a suspect, it isn’t enough to charge you, let alone get a conviction. Don’t worry about it. Let them do their job.

However, I agree with others, if they want to speak to you again as a suspect, get the duty solicitor. The police won’t assume you’re guilty because of it. Even if they did, again, for a charge and to be found guilty, they need their investigations to have gathered more than suspicions.

On all threads! Just seen the ghosts of her posts on another one, which reminded me to pop back here. 😂

MNHQ might want to have a peek at them. There’s always been a tricky poster who puts ‘82’ at the end of their many usernames.

So how many deletions are you allowed?
I thought it was 3 strikes and you're out.
This poster has had deletions across different threads.

Once they're banned all their posts are deleted afaik

Even ones going back years?

If the letters have been printed, then that can be linked to a unique device

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots