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The family at the centre of a harrowing war with their neighbours have broken their silence to admit the dispute spiralled out of control after it erupted into violence at a Coles supermarket.
Last week, the Daily Mail Australia revealed how a Hindu family in Liverpool, southwest of Sydney, had faeces spread over their letterbox and a used sanitary pad spread over a religious ornament during a year-long terror campaign.
Shania Lata, 19, and her family fled the unit to a new home in Minto, 20 kilometres away, but in videos that went viral on TikTok, they claim neighbours followed them to continue the alleged harassment.
Now Nawal Tawfeeq and her two adult children, Farah and Adam Abdulhussein, have responded to the allegations and shared new footage of Ms Tawfeeq allegedly being attacked with a shopping basket by her former neighbour at a local Coles.
They revealed the battle began with a small dispute over parking in their block of units, but quickly escalated into a series of disgusting acts that have now cost one of them their jobs, as they now admit: “We are both to blame.”
Ms Lata posted a series of shocking clips on TikTok and Instagram accusing her former neighbours of smearing human faeces on her letterbox, throwing hot water in her face and calling police over false allegations that her father pointed a gun at them.
In another disgusting act, Miss Lata claims that neighbours allegedly left a soiled sanitary pad at a religious shrine outside her front door.
The Lata family, who are Hindu, say the alleged vile acts were motivated by religious intolerance and shared racist and threatening messages they allegedly received.
Shania Lata has shared videos of her year-long feud with her former neighbours on social media
Ms Lata posted a series of shocking clips on TikTok and Instagram accusing her former neighbours of smearing human faeces on her letterbox, throwing hot water in her face (pictured) and calling police over false allegations that her father pointed a gun at them.
Farah Abdulhussein (pictured left) with her mother Nawal Tawfeeq outside their home in Liverpool
However, Abdulhussein, 23, insists the row is not about race or religion, although he admits it has gone too far.
“This started as a typical dispute between neighbours over the parking space downstairs and it escalated from there,” he told Daily Mail Australia from his home in Liverpool, western Sydney.
“Neither family is innocent, we are both wrong.”
Ms Abdulhussein says the backlash over her former neighbours’ videos prompted her to fight back and share her family’s version of events.
‘My brother had to quit his job because his workplace was shared on social media and people were contacting management with lies they had seen on Tiktok.’
She also claims that former neighbors also smeared feces on their mailbox, threw water in their faces and harassed them at all hours of the night.
“It was an eye for an eye, but we were not responsible for the bloody pad or the shit in the mailbox,” he said.
“But we had to put up cameras to protect ourselves and protect ourselves from the accusations that were being made about our family to the police and other neighbors in the building.”
According to Ms Abdulhussein, the row escalated last July when Ms Lata’s brother, Bharat Pratap, assaulted her mother, Nawal, at the Coles supermarket in Casula, south-west Sydney, prompting them to apply for a domestic violence warrant.
Footage of the assault shows Mr Pratap using a Coles shopping basket to hit Ms Tafook on the head, causing her to collapse.
“They make us look bad, but they are not innocent,” he said.
No neighbor admits to having left a dirty pad in a religious sanctuary
Ms Abdulhussein claims the Lata family spread faeces on their letterbox (pictured), threw water in their faces and harassed them at all hours of the night.
The Liverpool block of flats where the neighbourhood dispute began
Adam Abdulhussein lost his job at a local juice shop due to the backlash he received for Miss Lata’s TikTok videos
“We want our family to be left alone, we are still traumatized.”
On another occasion, Mr Pratap can apparently be seen aggressively breaking down his former neighbour’s door in the middle of the night.
Police are known to have been called to the apartment complex several times by both families involved in the nasty dispute, leading the Latas to move to Minto.
However, Miss Lata claims that the mud should be discredited. has continued despite having moved more than 20 kilometers away.
“He keeps driving past our house and honking his horn, we don’t know how they got our new address and the police aren’t doing anything,” she told Daily Mail Australia.
“Why do they keep fighting? We want it to stop.”
