UK Landlord Forum / Life

Hi all,

I really need advice about my rights dealing with another tenant who is mentally unstable and I fear for my safety.

I am currently renting from a Private Landlord who rented out another room to someone 5 months ago. At first this person appeared and interacted with me in a friendly manner, but soon displayed strange mannerisms.
Later on, I witnessed this person:

    * Singing in the middle of the night to the point where the neighbours have made a complaint.
    * Appears to be speaking to themselves (I hear this from my room). Occasionally I hear very loud moaning and groaning sounds.
    * Hearing this person continuously running up and down the stairs.
    * Banging on everyone's doors during the day and in the middle of the night. On 2 occasions it sounded like this person was going to break down my door.

After this person was banging on the door, I phoned my landlord expressing my concern that they were displaying signs of violent behaviour. This is where the landlord told me that this person is on medication who was previously homeless and doesn't have a job.
The landlord explained that they would phone this person immediately and asked me to monitor the situation further.

A couple weeks later, I came home during the day to find this person completely naked in the kitchen covered in blood. This person was spooked by me coming back home and ran upstairs to their room without saying a word. I immediately panicked and locked myself in my own room and called the landlord to report it. By then, this was the second time I had found this person walking around naked, but this was the first time seeing blood. The Landlord calmed me down and told me to stay in my room and they would call the other tenant to speak to this person when they get home from work.

After the phone call, I was listening out for this person behind my door and I could hear a lot of water splashing upstairs (presumably cleaning themselves up). I also heard a lot of scrubbing sounds on the carpet floor. I opened the door to inspect the area downstairs and I saw blood smear marks on the walls from where they had run upstairs. I took photos of this as evidence and forwarded them on to my landlord. The landlord didn't respond back to this. I also saw a book they had in the kitchen called 'Possessed Dolls' (very creepy).

When the other tenant came home from work, I spoke to them who then attempted to speak to this person to handle the matter. I later found out that this person had a wound on his head (apparently from a fall), but no explanation as to why they were rubbing the blood all over their body.

A day later, all of us (excluding this person), had a house meeting to discuss what to do next because the Landlord was not taking any responsibility in this matter. This is where I found out that the other tenant was requested by the landlord to make sure this person was taking their medication. Apparently, this person had admitted to skipping taking their medication, which was the cause for their unstable behaviour.

A couple weeks passed and one of the other tenants (who was the one checking that medication was being taken) had moved out. When I came home at night, this person approached me with body movements as if they were shivering (it wasn't cold in the house) asking me whether it was really me who walked into the house. They said they were very sure that they just saw me leave the house and heard voices earlier (despite no one was there before I came home). I tried going to my room, but he followed me trying to make further conversation that was really weird and made no sense. Although not an extreme incident (like the naked blood one), but I do fear for my safety from this unstable person who is displaying some form of schizophrenia.


I want to know what my rights are if the landlord doesn't take any action when something serious happens? Who do I turn to? I shouldn't be the one to feel like I have to move out.

I want to record evidence, but what are their and my rights in going about this? Am I allowed to install a hidden camera to capture these events?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you

MOVE  asap before you get hurt , it seams no one is caring for the other person

its not your job to care for him/her

do what the other sane tenant did move out

Move.

Move out.

Move on.

Don't stay because you think you aren't the one that should have to move. Just move.

Move out, don't wait for this person to be moved on.

Really just go,asap.The landlord is a disgrace to have knowingly placed a very ill and unstable man in a shared house.Let him do his care in the community if he wants to,but run for the hills!