Firstly I want to thank everyone for their kind words, it does mean an awful lot. And I'm not taking his insults to heart, if anything it makes me feel better about the situation as they prove what a fucking weirdo cunt he is, especially as the majority of them aren't true. I just wish I had recorded him as it would have been great to have evidence of such shitty behaviour, but will definitely do so next time. He went on and on about my appearance in such a bizarre way it was almost laughable, and why it upsets him so is beyond me.
I genuinely hope he gets killed. Not even joking*, cunts like that deserve death, or permanent internment.
I don't wish death upon him but I'd be overjoyed if he broke his leg, and then knew what it was like to be in pain all the time.
He was tired of being woken up at 11am?!
How about YOU being woken up at 4am?
And yeah ignore what he said, clearly he must have some massive insecurities if he's so anxious to say how much better he supposedly is. What a horrible cunt, one has to wonder how he was dragged up that way.
No real advice though, I'm sorry.
I know, the whole thing is absurd, others have complained about the noise he makes but he just ignores them, he really is an incredible narcissist and I think he's a borderline sociopath too.
Gutted for him, he's really in no position to complain about noise at 11am. Acting like a psychopath and threatening you is something that really should get him evicted. I know you said your landlord is useless but stuff like that is beyond what is acceptable in that situation.
Living in house-shares is always a cauldron of annoyance and grievances and unless compromise is learned it's inevitably going to end up with horrible confrontation. I wonder if he's never lived in one before, as if he had he'd surely have realised that behaving like that is not the way it is done.
You've got my sympathy.
I do get the noise thing, back in my twenties I'd often sleep til midday and would be annoyed by such a thing, but if he'd just spoken to me normally I'd have tried to be as quiet as I could. Unfortunately the opposite applied and he proved himself to be an utter cunt.
Can you get an adult witness? If so you could complain to the police under the Protection from Harassment Act. They can give him a warning, and if you can then provide evidence of a breach of the warning they can arrest and charge him. I helped someone do this, the polic gave a warning and the harassment stopped.
I don't know if anyone else heard, there is one person who might've been home but she's gone out since, but I will ask her to see if she'll confirm the things he said.
Yeah speak to the police about it. That's harassment and if you explain that he constantly wakes you at 4am and he started banging and kicking your door whilst you were working, making fun of your disability etc... It's harassment and threatening behaviour.
Make your landlord aware too.
RECORD IT. USE A RECORDER and when he's screaming, you talk calmly to him... then show it to the police/landlord.
He's a cunt, sorry to hear it...
I so wish I had. I was just so annoyed I went down the minute I finished teaching to speak to him rather than thinking about it in detail, but I did talk to him calmly throughout so if there were any witnesses hopefully they'd be able to mention that.
Or, if your lessons are already recorded, forward them on to the PRC's embassy.
The lesson is recorded automatically but it's not available just yet, once it is I'm going to watch it to see how much you can hear and at the very least download it and send it to my landlord.
In fairness, he does think you're 79.
You're probably not wrong!
Are you on a joint tenancy or separate contracts? The landlord must have some sort of duty to make sure their tenants aren't threatening each other. You might want to look up the London Renters Union, who may be able to help you stand up for your rights.
Separate contracts, and I'll definitely look in to it to see what my rights are. I'm also thinking about speaking to him again in a polite and friendly way claiming I want to resolve the issue as I'm sure he's such a cunt he'll go off again, and then this time I'll have a recording of it.
And I just want to thank everyone again who's responded, apologies for not replying to everyone but for those I didn't your words are enormously appreciated.