A SINGLE mother has been traumatised and left unable to work as a result of racial harassment from a stalker she believes lives in her apartment block – and more than a year later no suspects have been identified.

Alice – we have changed her name for her own safety – lives in a new-build housing estate in Camden with her daughter.

She told the New Journal how in 2021 someone started knocking on her door in the middle of the night, five days a week.

The harassment was followed by splattered paint, ripped up mail, bleach in her letter box and most recently racist and intimidating letters – seen by the New Journal – have been left for her in the foyer and stairwell.

She said: “The person would just hover outside our door so you could see the light was on. They would just stand there. “It was really, really horrible.”

Every one or two weeks another letter appears, addressed to her, with one calling her a “black n***** b****” and her daughter a “pig” and a “mule”.

The most recent told her: “Get the f*** out of here or we will get you.”

Alice, who is otherwise happy in her home, said: “I can’t actually enter the building without taking a tablet now. It’s very, very hard. I think it makes it harder because I have a young child so I’m trying to maintain a normality around her.

“When women are being stalked I think in the beginning people just don’t take it seriously. As a black woman there’s a sense that you’re strong, you can get on with it. I think at this point, now I just feel like I can’t.

“There were even times where I thought, do I ask my daughter’s dad to look after her? I don’t want to feel like a bad parent after being ‘gaslit’ by the council that I’ve been fabricating a story when it’s clearly happening.”

During her year of harassment, Alice has been helped by the anti-racist organisation The Monitoring Group. The Met Police told the group that installing communal CCTV in the block would help their enquiries.

But the council rejected the idea, even though The Monitoring Group offered to pay for the cameras.

The council said the cameras need to be higher than 8ft or people would “take them down” and also cited data protection breaches and technology compatibility issues.

Chloe Ruthven, advocacy worker at The Monitoring Group, said: “They seem to be really silly excuses. We’ve pushed for it and we brought it up in other meetings, and it’s really tiring because you have to keep going into these meetings and make these demands that seem very straightforward.”

The group has said the case presents a clear case of institutional racial discrimination. A Met spokesperson said: “We have worked with the Monitoring Group while responding to these incidents.

“We will contact them to understand why they believe that racial discrimination has played a part in the police response to these offences.”

A Camden Council spokesperson said: “We have been working closely with this tenant to help her move and have shortlisted the family for suitable alternate properties. We have also improved safety in the building.”