'He was playing these sick mind games': Couple forced to move and 'nearly died' after neighbour's comments about their sex life
30.04.2023 - 09:17
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A couple say their 'creepy' neighbour's comments about their sex life 'nearly killed' them - and forced them to leave the country.
Alex and Carla Salt had lived in the same property in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire from 2009 and 2012 and then from 2017 until March this year. However, their time in The Potteries was ruined by a male neighbour who would shout loudly at night and made inappropriate comments about their sex life.
Now the couple have fled to North Wales, reports Stoke-on-Trent Live.
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Full-time carer Carla, aged 32, said: "He would kick the front door in and be screaming and shouting late at night. He started making inappropriate sexual comments to my husband about our sex life.
"When we moved back in in 2017, he was fine for about a year. We were civil neighbours and talked out the front. But I think his mental health deteriorated.
"He would make comments about our sex life to Alex saying things like 'Oh I bet you're doing lots of s******g'. My husband struggles to come out with confrontation and he told me he was being a 'weirdo'.
"He would say things like he would move his bed around because 'I don't want to hear your s******g'. It was inappropriate and disgusting. We didn't want to have the bed there and we had to move the furniture around.
"He would call me 'babe' and 'beautiful 'and told me he watched me walk from the car to the house whenever I came in. It felt like I had to run from the car to the house."
Carla added: "He said he would watch my husband in the back garden. Alex uses gaming on his PC as a coping mechanism. He was not able to socialise much outside. He told him about his mental health and he started confronting