Obsessive stalkers who terrorised neighbours claimed they were the victims

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A stalker couple trained CCTV cameras on their neighbours’ home and falsely accused them of child abuse and plotting against them in a reign of terror.Paul McFadyen and Laura McGlinn, both 53, wreaked havoc in a quiet street through their obsessive snooping.McFadyen and McGlinn took their neighbours to court claiming imaginary abuse by other residents of quiet Hartfield Terrace, Paisley.But the tables were turned on the couple after a sheriff accused them of imagining abuse by other residents in the street - 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 - including footage inside one neighbour’s home.McFadyen and McGlinn were charged and were found guilty of stalking in a criminal trial at Paisley Sheriff Court.Neighbours Susanne McDowall, 59, and 29-year-old daughter Anne-Marie were horrified to be dragged into court in the civil case, where they were identified as the “nucleus” of the delusional accusations.Among the claims was an accusation that they hosted a “hate party” with other members of the street to bully McFadyen and McGlinn.Susanne - who lives next door to McGlinn and McFadyen in a four-in-a-block flat - said: “We held a wee get-together in the garden, with a Hawaii theme - an Aloha party we called it.“It was totally innocent but the next thing we knew was that we were being dragged into court by Paul and Laura and accused of hosting ‘hate parties’.

That’s what she put in her writ.”Susanne added: “The writ was page after page of paranoid claims and stuff that was made up against nine neighbours who were generally just going about their lives.“We had no choice but