THE neighbour who called the police after hearing a row in the home Boris Johnson shares with partner Carrie Symonds said they dialled 999 as a last resort.
The unnamed neighbour told The Guardian said they knocked on the door of the flat on Friday morning after a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging.
“The very last thing I’d heard was a loud bang and screaming. First I knocked on their door to make sure everyone was OK,” they said.
“There was no response at all, I couldn’t hear anything. I knocked three times. Then I went back, discussed further that there was no response and we decided to call the police.”
The neighbour, who was waiting up late for a takeaway delivery, described loud shouting that could be heard throughout the vicinity, an account backed up by other residents in the area.
At one point Symonds was heard telling Johnson to "get off me" and "get out of my flat", The Guardian reported.
The newspaper said it had heard a recording of the incident in which Johnson could allegedly be heard saying "get off my f****** laptop" before a loud crashing noise.
The Guardian said Symonds could also be heard saying Johnson had damaged a sofa with red wine.
"You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt. You have no care for money or anything," Symonds is reported to have said.
Scotland Yard said they were alerted to the situation by a caller who "was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour".
The neighbour added: “I’d heard the screaming and shouting that sounded like it was from the street before I went to get my food. It became clear as I returned that it was coming from inside.”
They said that they began recording “purely out of instinct”.
“I had my phone on me because I’d gone to pick up a Deliveroo so I was on the phone to the Deliveroo driver. If I saw someone who I thought was in danger on the street I would start filming while seeking help. I was inside my own flat hearing shouting, screaming and banging so I pressed record.”
“It felt like if there was something dangerous happening that having a recording of it would be important as evidence. The screaming maxed out the volume of the microphone on my phone through two doors, which is why we became concerned.”
“We called the police and they called back to say thank you for everything that you’d done and luckily no one was hurt.”
“The first shouting could be heard from my own living room. I have never heard any other noise in the building, other than the front door opening and closing. People upstairs and on the street could hear it.”
Another neighbour, a 32-year-old nursery worker who would only give her name as Fatimah, said: "Just after midnight I heard a lady shouting, but I couldn't make out what she said, then I heard plates and glasses smashing and things being thrown around.
"I was watching something on the television and I had to mute it because I was quite concerned, it was coming through the walls."
The Metropolitan Police said it had responded to a call from a local resident at 12.24am on Friday, but after officers attended it was deemed "there were no offences or concerns" and there was no cause for police action.
The revelations came as Johnson prepared to face the Tory faithful with Jeremy Hunt at the hustings in Birmingham.
Ahead of the event, Hunt attacked his rival over reports he was avoiding a live TV debate before postal ballots are returned.
Invoking Johnson's personal hero, Winston Churchill, in his criticism, the Foreign Secretary said: "This is supposed to be his finest hour ... but if you're going to hide away, that's not democracy.
"He may be the right man, I may be the right man. But Conservative Party members can only make that choice if you have a proper debate.
"And you can't have that debate if one of the candidates is bottling all opportunities to have a public head-to-head debate before ballot papers are sent out."
Hunt said that "scrutiny can be uncomfortable", but "if we can't handle it with friends, we won't deserve to lead against our opponents".
Tory grassroots will gather on Saturday as reports of the row feature across the front pages of British newspapers.
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