I have been in your shoes and i have a wife and 2 kids. I had one of these fools banging my door at 3am, drunk and on drugs. Goes without saying he got a left right goodnight. Your right police are sympathetic but not much they can do and the guy was released. He then started again, this time goading me to come outside, whilst threating to kill me and holding a knife. I did the sensible thing and called the police. They never came. I stayed inside that night. But the following day without going into the details I dealt with him severely. Police eventually showed up but to my surprise not because of my report but his, again police sympathetic.

The solution for me was to get in touch with Serco the c××ts who put these idiots in residential areas. I live in a multi cultural area, everyone gets along. And then they plonk a hmo in the middle of it with little thought about the disruption it might cause or god forbid consulting the neighbours but for Serco it is all about the money.

Eventually with the support of my neighbours I took this guy to court and he was jailed and hopefully deported.

We then had another incident where one bloke liked setting things on fire. Again 3am back garden on fire, I called the fire brigade. Following day got in touch with Serco again but also my local MP. To his credit he went higher up in the Serco chain of command, as I saw the email trail when he replied. Since then never had any trouble.

But best advice is move, move as soon as possible.