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Difficult day today...apart from the laundry needing to be done. I have been contacted to make a statement to both the police and the council (who own the flats here)
My flat is one of 4 in a block. The upstairs neighbours diagonally to my flat have a very volatile relationship which, over the last 6 months or so has become worse and needing police intervention more than once.
Just before 3pm yesterday very loud screams came from the upstairs flat, some of which brought memories of my own experiences flooding back. A neighbour in an upstairs flat opposite started hammering on the security door next to my front door as he had seen the male beating and throttling the female in the flat. The neighbour opposite plus at least 5 others and myself called the police since this was by far the worst incident so far.
The police came, forced their way into the flat upstairs and dragged the male downstairs and out into the communal area. Another police officer stayed upstairs with the female but she refused to talk to the police. Without her co-operation there was nothing the police would do apart from tell the male to go walk off his bad temper.
The police also noted that the flat was wrecked, filthy and that the female was covered in bruises.
Whilst those of us who called the police were talking to them outside, the neighbour next to me and under the problem flat came out. She is the one with the noisy dog. She tried to imply that the female picked fights since that is what the male had told her. I couldn't believe what I was hearing from her, she completely went against what 8 of us either saw and/or heard.
Without co-operation from the female upstairs the police could do nothing other than ask for statements to be done today and to call them out again if any further issues occur. The council also need statements in order to see if eviction of the two of them upstairs can be done on a fast track. Evicting them is not the answer since that only moves the problem it doesn't deal with it.
So the police will be here at 10am and the council at 1pm today. I didn't sleep well at all last night. I know it takes two to make an argument but as someone who experienced domestic abuse first hand in the 1980's when the police did not take any action cos it was not deemed a crime back then, the screams were absolutely bone chilling and not something anyone can forget in a hurry.
My flat is one of 4 in a block. The upstairs neighbours diagonally to my flat have a very volatile relationship which, over the last 6 months or so has become worse and needing police intervention more than once.
Just before 3pm yesterday very loud screams came from the upstairs flat, some of which brought memories of my own experiences flooding back. A neighbour in an upstairs flat opposite started hammering on the security door next to my front door as he had seen the male beating and throttling the female in the flat. The neighbour opposite plus at least 5 others and myself called the police since this was by far the worst incident so far.
The police came, forced their way into the flat upstairs and dragged the male downstairs and out into the communal area. Another police officer stayed upstairs with the female but she refused to talk to the police. Without her co-operation there was nothing the police would do apart from tell the male to go walk off his bad temper.
The police also noted that the flat was wrecked, filthy and that the female was covered in bruises.
Whilst those of us who called the police were talking to them outside, the neighbour next to me and under the problem flat came out. She is the one with the noisy dog. She tried to imply that the female picked fights since that is what the male had told her. I couldn't believe what I was hearing from her, she completely went against what 8 of us either saw and/or heard.
Without co-operation from the female upstairs the police could do nothing other than ask for statements to be done today and to call them out again if any further issues occur. The council also need statements in order to see if eviction of the two of them upstairs can be done on a fast track. Evicting them is not the answer since that only moves the problem it doesn't deal with it.
So the police will be here at 10am and the council at 1pm today. I didn't sleep well at all last night. I know it takes two to make an argument but as someone who experienced domestic abuse first hand in the 1980's when the police did not take any action cos it was not deemed a crime back then, the screams were absolutely bone chilling and not something anyone can forget in a hurry.
