Inside the vilest neighbourhood row Australia has ever seen

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A family at the centre of a bitter war with their neighbours has broken their silence to admit the dispute spiralled out of control after erupting into violence in Coles supermarket.

The Daily Mail Australia revealed last week how a Hindu family’s letterbox in Liverpool, south-west of Sydney, was smeared with faeces and a used sanitary napkin left on top of a religious decoration during a year-long terror campaign.

Shania Lata, 19, and her family have since fled the unit to a new home in Minto, 20 kilometres away – but in videos that have gone viral on TikTok, they claim neighbours have followed them to continue the alleged harassment.

Now, Nawal Tawfiq and her two adult children, Farah and Adam Abdulhussain, have responded to the allegations, sharing new footage of Ms Tawfiq being attacked with a shopping basket by their former neighbour at their local Coles store.

They revealed that the fight started as a simple dispute over parking at the apartment building they live in – but quickly escalated into a series of disgusting acts that cost one of them his job, as they now admit: “We were both at fault.”

Ms. Lata posted a series of horrific clips on Tik Tok And Instagram She accused her former neighbors of smearing their mailbox with human feces, throwing hot water in her face and calling the police on false allegations that her father had pointed a gun at them.

In another disgusting act, Miss Lata claimed that neighbours left a dirty sanitary napkin on a religious shrine outside their front door.

The Lata family, who are Hindus, claim the alleged heinous acts were motivated by religious bigotry and the common racist and threatening messages they allegedly received.

However, Ms Abdul Hussein, 23, insists the dispute is not about race or religion – but she admits it has gone too far.

“It started as a classic dispute between neighbours over basement parking and it escalated from there,” she told Daily Mail Australia from her home in Liverpool. Sydneythe West.

“Neither family is innocent, we are both at fault.”

Ms. Abdul Hussein says the backlash sparked by the videos posted by her former neighbors prompted her to respond and share her family’s perspective on what happened.

“My brother had to leave his job because his workplace was going viral on social media and people were reaching out to management with lies they saw on TikTok.”

She also alleges that the former neighbors also put feces in their mailbox, poured water on their faces, and harassed them at all hours of the night.

“It was an eye for an eye, but we weren’t responsible for the bloody sanitary pads or the filth in the mailbox,” she said.

“But we had to put up cameras to protect ourselves and the accusations they were making against our family to the police and other neighbors in the building.”

According to Ms Abdul Hussain, the fighting escalated last July when Ms Lata’s brother, Bharat Pratap, assaulted her mother, Nawal, at a Coles supermarket in Casula in south-west Sydney, prompting them to obtain an intentional violence order.

Footage of the assault shows Mr Pratap using a Coles shopping basket to hit Ms Tavuk on the head, causing her to collapse.

“They make us look like we’re bad guys, but we’re not innocent,” she said.

“We want them to leave our family alone, and we are still in shock.”

On another occasion, Mr. Pratap can be seen kicking his former neighbor’s door violently in the middle of the night.

It is understood that the police were called to the residential complex several times by the two families involved in the ugly dispute, prompting the Latas family to move to Minto.

However, Miss Lata claims that mud throwing It continued despite moving over 20 kilometers.

“He’s still driving past our house honking his horn, we don’t know how they got our new address and the police won’t do anything,” she told Daily Mail Australia.

“Why do they keep fighting? We want this to stop.”