It's all kicking off again next door

[shellistar]

Help! Lots of banging and shouting coming from next door (yeah she took him back - stalk me for the thread!)

I'm on my way out to rehersals for until ten but OH is worried as he is home alone and can't deal with this so asked me to ask you guys! In light of Thursday night should we be calling the police to report? Do we have to wait till she comes to us? Should we wait to hear definite hitting?

Sounds like she's trying to throw him out but were loathe to get invovled too quickly!

Police arrived as I arrived home at 10:10 and looks/sounds like they've gone already. Hope that's a good sign!!!

Keep calling even if she says no. I had a situation in the flat beneath me. A few years of noise at all hours, it was really horrible to live with and I fucking hated them. Then they had a baby and it quietened down, then got louder. Shouting, baby crying. But My mindset was stuck in the "fucking noisy neighbors" mode, rather than fucking hell there is a baby in the middle of this. In the end ss came and removed the child immediately, which I now know only happens in really extreme circs. I then saw the state of the flat, it was total squalor, heaps of rubbish, half eaten chicken on the bed, infested with mice and fleas, obvious evidence of drug use. I will never forget looking from the open flat door, over the obscene mess and seeing the bottle steriliser in the kitchen. I was so disgusted with myself for not acting. Now if in doubt I call. I would rather face a backlash than run the risk of abuse and neglect going unreported.

Oh my god Aoife that's horrible and really sad.