FAMILIES living in a quiet Scarborough cul-de-sac say they have been living next to a teenage "neighbour from hell" for the past five months.
Amateur DJ Edward Burrows moved into Norwood Mews and started playing loud rave music into the early hours of the morning.
Residents of the area claim they were intimidated and witnessed brawls, shouting and vandalism at the housing association properties, off Gladstone Road.
The situation became so bad for one neighbour, Carl Flaherty, 20, that he took out a £1,000 loan so he could move his partner and eight-month-old daughter to a new flat.
He said: "They play music from about 7am until five o'clock the next morning. The police have been called to the property literally hundreds of times during the past few months."
Mr Flaherty said neighbours had been issued with booklets to record anti-social behaviour and in the past month he had completed five. He said: "Every time we walk past the house we can smell cannabis, there are beer cans and bottles and threats and abuse from the young lad who lives there."
Street of noise
Mr Flaherty said the police were called at 4.25am on Monday because of noise outside the property.
He said: "There was a huge argument between those in the house and all of the residents. When the police arrived they took three drunken girls home and left them to get on with the rampage."
Neighbours said they had to call the police at 3.15am last Thursday because two young girls and an older woman were outside the house screaming to be let in.
Jean Barnett, 45, who lives across the road from Mr Burrows, said: "He plays rave music and dance music. He's got record decks in there and he shouts over it through a microphone.
"I've got two children. He shouldn't be here, this is a family street."
A 28-year-old neighbour who would not give his name said: "My kids can't sleep. They are falling asleep at school and getting sent home. We are not having a proper sleep pattern."
The Evening News gave Mr Burrows the opportunity to give his side of the story – and a chance to deny or contest any or all of the serious allegations and claims made by the residents.
When our reporter and photographer called to put the points to him yesterday, all he would say was:
"I haven't got any side of the story and I'm moving on soon anyway."
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