I said I would eventually give an update, but first a quick resumé
She was making my life a nightmare, turning others against me when I stood up for a neighbour she was bullying, falsely accusing him of wife beating and me of being a paedophile, telling another neighbour that I had said he was harbouring an illegal immigrant, that he had probably buried his wife in his garden and other nonsense. Goodness knows what she told my friend of many years up the road - who still usually refuses to speak to me except to berate me. The (not-a-wife-beater) neighbour suffered from depression and killed himself last Summer, much to the distress of his (not-beaten) wife and children.
Her Grandson decided he had had enough of her and moved out. Her eldest son, a drug addict, moved in. He was arrested for attacking her and criminal damage to a car (my daughter's) while under the influences. (She told my old friend nothing had happened and we had made it up in spite of multiple witnesses, camera footage and her need for medical treatment!) Recently he attacked her again, was arrested but now released as she withdrew charges - again.
My daughters have been pressuring me to sell up and move elsewhere.
Old friend did knock on my door recently but only because it was an emergency and there was no answer at the first door she tried. Problem neighbour, drunk on Vodka (not unusual) had staged a suicide attempt, claiming to have swallowed a load of pills and deternined to die. Not so determined, in that she phoned this 88 year old and let her in before falling "unconscious" to the floor, frightening the old girl into panic mode.
I called an ambulance. The front door was shut. They called the fire brigade to break in after the "unconscious" patient told them to F-off through the letter box. She eventually decided to open the door rather than have it "removed" and was trussed up like a chicken and carted off. They knew exactly who she was. Seems like half the county knows her and her family.
Anyway, looks like I don't have to move.
The Housing Association she rents from have (not for the first time, it seems) found her somewhere "more suitable". It's not far away, it's in the same block as my old friend - but it isn't next door to me, thank goodness! She started moving her stuff out today.
I'm not sure her new neighbours will be too happy, though. I give it six months.
Changes in taxation that Andy Burnham seems to be interested in



