A gay couple from Derby, England says they’ve been dealing with a homophobic neighbor who has been terrorizing them for years, and police have done nothing to help.
Michael Killackey recently spoke at a Hate Crime Scrutiny Panel meeting to share about the six years–six years!–of abuse he and his partner have suffered at the hands of a deranged neighbor lady.
Among the list of offenses included receiving a note in their mailbox that read: “The cure to AIDS? Kill gay people” and being called “pedo scum” among other antigay slurs.
“I’ve been called f*cking pedo scum and even spat at,” Killackey recalled at the meeting.
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He also said the neighbor would send male sex workers to the couple’s home.
“A man came to my door and I said ‘What are you here for?’ and he just said ‘I must have got the wrong address’ but I saw his phone and noticed he was from an escort site.”
Another time, she ordered unwanted takeout from 17 different restaurants delivered to their home.
“Chinese, Indian, pizza…you name it. We just kept telling them that we didn’t order it.”
But one thing in particular was especially disturbing. It involved the woman smearing human feces all over their front door.
“It was just shocking,” Killackey said. “I didn’t know what to do. I have been subject to the most vile abuse imaginable.”
Killackey told the panel that he contacted police on several different occasions, but they refused to intervene.
“I kept being batted away with the excuse of mental health and that the neighbor suffered with mental heath issues,” he said.
“I fully understand that but why was she living independently and what about my mental health, having to put up with it?”
Thankfully, the woman eventually moved away and Killackey claims the abuse stopped.
Inspector Rich Buxton of the Derbyshire Police, who was also at the meeting, admitted that, while he did not personally know about the situation between Killackey and his neighbor, he did think the police response was “disappointing”.
“It appears that it could have been handled far better but that’s why we are here today because hate crime is becoming a larger part of what we do,” he said.
“We get many more reports of hate and people report it to us. That’s what we’re there for. I accept that hate crime has not been dealt with in the past as it is now but that is changing.”
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QueerTruth
“Thankfully, the woman eventually moved away and Killackey claims the abuse stopped.”
So what’s the point of this article?
Darsithis
Illustrating not only the awful abuse they suffered for just existing but also that the police did nothing to assist them. Why not let people know what’s going on, even if it has ended by now?
Ashke113
So……I just wasted 2mins of my life reading a useless article?
Juanjo
And how long did you waste managing to type out that complaint in minimally legible English?
pierscik
Two minutes isn’t much to waste to empathise with such a horrendous harassment and understand how difficult it can be to get anything done to stop it..
niles
A creative mind could have come up with ways to retaliate against this old bat.
QueerTruth
Darsithis,
For what? This “claimed” compliant because that’s all it is. A claim. So like I said… no point to this article.
Juanjo
Aren’t you the troll who is defending a homophobe who said he would drown his kids if they were gay. Yup, thought so.
QueerTruth
Haha. How clever. I’m not a troll but think what you want, Juanjo
thisismylife247
You know what you do? You buy a shotgun and the next time she comes around your door to smear human feces on it you shoot her in the head, plant a knife in her hand and tell police it was self defense; she came to your house to kill you. She obviously had a long history of mental health the story would be completely believable.
And Voila! no more harassing neighbor
charlie_jackpot
They are in Derby – not the USA
1898
fortunately, most of us don’t deal with mentally ill people by murdering them
it sounds like you’ve got some issues yourself. let’s hope your neighbors are more compassionate than you are
MarathonBoy
In London, they arrest several hundred people per year for mean tweets. That’s just the city of London, not the whole UK. There is a front-page story right now about a woman who was arrested and detained for 7 hours for “misgendering” a transgender on Twitter. But responding to actual crime? Not a priority.
1898
link?
Kangol
1898, you can’t post links on Queerty, but Google “arrest London tweet Independent,” and you’ll see that as usual, MarathonBoy is mischaracterizing what’s really happening. The UK has a law that potentially criminalizes harassing or hateful speech, and most of the people arrested have engaged in racist hate speech.
GymMan456
Yes, the UK police have been lectured for years now on hate crime, and they are also acting on it.
Its very strange that this case have not been taken up by them, as it typically should sort under hate crime. There is probably something we don’t know here.
Geeker
They should have tortured the old bitch back but harder.
GymMan456
It is interesting to think out How to answer this, in a way you can tell about publicly.
IAMBROWN
Disturbing. It’s astonishing to me the things (and excuses) people are allowed to get away with and no one steps in to help. I can’t say I would had the same patience.
PoetDaddy
I wouldn’t have the patience to put up with all of this, either. I would immediately press charges for assault and file a restraining order against her. Then I would report her to Social Services as a person with a mental illness that makes her unfit to live outside of care. And I’m sure I could come up with a few other creative responses. By the way, how does a wacky neighbor lady know how to contact a gay escort service?