The front-door has been kicked off its hinges a couple of times since the last update, though it has been replaced each time. (First time by the Police at my request – which was nice.)

The actual news is that she was evicted today, hurrah!

I wasn’t here (new job, not working at home any more), but I did leave the webcam running and will talk to my neighbour (on the other side) to see if he saw anything.

The webcam only picked up a couple of guys who boarded up the a broken window, but I guess that the fact that they came at all means she shouldn’t be back.
I’m glad that I’m not trying to sell this house at the moment – next door is in such a state that I know it would affect mine.
I just hope the management company sort out the house soon, so it doesn’t look such a mess (at least from the outside anyway).

UPDATE: Spoken to the other neighbour, he says they came round at about 1230 and she had definately left that house, and is apparently living on a road about half a mile from here. Closer than I’d like, but it could be worse.

UPDATE (2 months later): The house is still empty, and looks terrible – more windows have been broken and the front-door appears to have more damage to it. I am guessing that bored kids are to blame.

UPDATE (+3 days): I left a message on the management co’s machine which claims you can’t leave a message. The next day they came and replaced the door and properly boarded-up the windows. Which is nice, but a little overdue. Here endth all mention of that house on this blog.

While the gf and I were abroad this last week our neighbour received a visit from the police.

We don’t know why, but have been told that three police cars arrived in the wee hours of Wednesday morning and her door was smashed open while she called out “I’m a good girl, I’m a good girl!”.
My questions over her mental health and suitability as a parent are turning into answers.
And now she’s pregnant again, and apparently lying to her (new) bf about how far gone she is.

I leave you to make your own opinions.

If all things go to plan, there’s just one fortnight to go as of Tuesday…

Friday – Further verbal abuse and threats from her, all in front of the local kids (all pre-teens).
She even said* that I had reported her noise making because I was jealous I wasn’t invited to the parties! (So far from the truth it’s disturbing.)
She clearly still thinks that it was just me who reported the continued nuisance, and that ‘grassing’ is a bad thing.

Saturday – She reportedly tried to encourage said kids to smash my windows and front door (fortunately they refused, and told their parents).
Kid asks this morning if she had tried herself overnight – I assume she claimed that she was planning on doing so.

I’ll be calling the police tomorrow morning to make sure there’s an official record of this, just in case she does try. I doubt she’d get through the windows (DG) but she could well cause damage.

(*- that’s too polite a word)

UPDATE: The police lady on the phone advised me that it’s perfectly okay to call at the time of every incident, to build up a case against her if it’s ever needed.

Although her eviction notice ran out 3 weeks ago, our neighbour is still using the house and generally being a nuisance.

The management co have said (again) that they’re waiting for a court date. Until that date has come and gone they have no rights to physically move her. A fact she seems to know all too well.

Fortunately, she has been living at her “Nan’s” and so she hasn’t been around much.
However, the last two nights’ calm has been punctuated by her death-rattle of a laugh and, of course, various shouting and banging noises etc.

I did have an interesting dream, which I believed for a blissful moment yesterday morning, in which her house was stormed by at least 30 police in riot gear.

Last night, at about 11, she threw eggs at our front door and windows.

The theory is that she just got up and had received notice of her court-date.
Not particularly imaginative, nor adult.

UPDATE (Sun 3pm): I was sweeping up the pavement outside my house and ‘she’ comes up to me and starts, as usual, with ‘Are you Stu?’
Since I’m still not Stu, and that I’m trying not to let her affect my life, I ignored her entirely.
She carries on trying to talk to me and I keep ignoring her, and she starts trying to insult me.
Insults of: ‘student’ (not true, not an insult); ‘grass’ (not an insult) and others went ignored, until other people on the street shouted back at her.

She then comes up to me and asks me to touch her, Jamaican greeting style, and I say ‘no’.
She asks me to again, and I say that I don’t want to, she asks why, blah blah blah.
The gf comes out to call me inside, which makes sense so I do.

Once we’re inside the other neighbours continue shouting at her, with her screeching back.
Choice snippets:

• “Shut up ya scag-’ead!”
• “So I’m a heroine addict, so what?”
• “I’ve got cancer, only got 12 months left.” (Doubt it)

Last night she started hammering (nails into the party wall and others) at about 2345. It went on for at least half an hour.
She was also chatting, shouting all night. When came in at about 2 she shouted at her, calling her a “dirty stop-out”.
All the ingredients for a perfect night’s sleep. All finished at about 0800, an hour after we got up.

UPDATE 0900: I just spoke to the management company and was told that they are now waiting for a court-date. They expect that will come in about 3 or 4 weeks. So a slightly different story than we were given before, but the lady I spoke to seemed genuine and sympathetic.

I have just spoken to the man from Environmental Health assigned to my case.

There were a couple of interesting points:

• Recordings, even made with their equipment, isn’t admissable as evidence.
• He, or another member of EH staff must witness the noise firsthand.
• They arrange the times to come and listen.
• Even if they were able to come out on demand, chances are they wouldn’t get here in time in this case.

They are unlikely to get any result quicker than the management company, so they will be closing the case (though it is easy to reopen it if need be).

I have also heard from neighbours across the road that at 0645 on Saturday morning she (and a friend) were witnessed returning to the house completely sloshed. The were struggling to open the door so much so that she had to take a pee at the side of her own house.

Today, Ms Neighbour-From-Hell’s window broke. Now I don’t know for sure that it was on purpose, but she’s done crazier things.
What I do know is that some glass fell onto the pavement below, and that more fell on at least 3 later occasions, and that at one point it was green and beer-bottle shaped.

I also now know that her tipple of choice is White Thunder Extra Strong Cider. Two empty 3-litre bottles now reside in my property after being thrown from her window. One of those even managed to get caught by my motion-detection camera!

Earlier this afternoon I was making my front door close a little more easily when my neighbour comes out and, surprisingly comes over to me.

More surprisingly, she friendlily asked if I was called ‘Stu’.
I’m not so I said so, and the conversation continued roughly thus:
“So what is your name?”
“I’m not sure I should tell you, we’re not really friends are we?”
“Oh, why not?”
“Because you play loud music at unsociable hours.”
“You didn’t ask my question.”
“What?”
“You didn’t answer me.”
“You didn’t ask a question.”
“I don’t play music.”
“Do you remember when you last played music?”
“Er.. (music starts from her house) now.”
“And when else did you play music? At night, when we’re trying to sleep – my girlfriend and I have both got jobs, …”
(Interrupting, getting up) “Oi…”

So the mention of jobs obviously upset her, but is that my problem?

As she was having difficulty participating in a simple conversation she wanders off, toddler in tow.

Later we discover that she has thrown eggs at our house. It’s sad that this is all she can think of, but it’s sad that she causes the anger in the first place.

Update
I spoke to some other neighbours and was told two things:

• She went into a shop run by one of the neighbours and declared herself to be “The Neighbour From Hell”.
• There was a nasty physical fight between a couple of guys who came from her house the other night.