A frightened Paisley schoolgirl had to defend herself against her paranoid neighbours after a string of false accusations.
Kerry Morrison was just 16 when she was confronted with horrendous unsubstantiated claims by Paul McFadyen and Laura McGlinn, who even trained CCTV cameras on her home.
The teenager wrote a heartbreaking letter defending herself and explaining the toll the experience had on her life after she was accused, along with eight others, of abusing the couple, the Daily Record reports.
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McFadyen and McGlinn even tried to get funding from the Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) to pursue to a civil case against innocent neighbours on Hartfield Terrace, Paisley.
Kerry's letter was considered by the board, who rejected the application, but the 53-year-old couple - who were eventually convicted of stalking - continued using their own money.
They later failed to win an interdict, with a power of arrest attached, against the neighbours they dragged before a sheriff.
In her letter to the board, Kerry begged them not to fund the stalkers' civil case, which named her along with mum Jennifer, 36, and dad David, 37.
Kerry wrote: "I have never intentionally tried to cause anybody fear or alarm or to intimidate them, even though these two people have deliberately gone out of their way to cause me to feel like I am trapped in my own home."
McFadyen and McGlinn timed and dated footage of Kerry sitting inside the front door of her house, claiming she was staring at them for four hours at a time.
At the time of writing, in 2021, Kerry, now 19, wrote: "Over the last three years, I have seen Laura be aggressive, confrontational, loud and intentionally cause distress to others for no reason.
"I feel that Laura tries to control my entire life, I can't do normal, everyday things like walk to school, sit in my garden or leave the house."
Kerry claims that Laura McGlinn contacted Social Services, accusing her of abusing her two little brothers. She wrote: "I worry that if she keeps reporting lies, eventually someone will believe her because she can manipulate people."
She added: "I first became frightened of Laura in the summer of 2018 when I heard her shouting outside that she was going to get me and my brothers taken away. Not long after that, Laura started staring into my bedroom window from her end window for hours every day.
"I felt so uncomfortable I got my dad to rearrange my room as my bed was under the window. I still do not open my curtain because she still stands there sometimes which adds to why I feel trapped as she can always see me."
Kerry wrote: "In November 2020, the police told my parents that they had seen footage from Laura and Paul's cameras that showed my garden and my front door. The cameras could also hear what was being said in our garden at that time too.
"I felt sick. I had spent a lot of the summer sitting at the entrance area inside my house. Knowing that she was watching me that entire time made me feel so uncomfortable."
She added: "I want to not hide my face in my garden. I also want the threats to stop. I want the lies to stop. I don't want anything to do with them and I don't want to feel frightened any more."
The Record's previous story told how McFadyen and McGlinn trained CCTV cameras on Kerry's home. The neighbours from hell claimed abuse by other residents of their street.
But the tables were turned on the couple after a sheriff accused them of imagining abuse by neighbours and ordered them to pay £37,500 in legal costs. The pair were also convicted of stalking their neighbours when police uncovered hundreds of hours of CCTV surveillance that was gathered illegally.
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