Man whose security camera captured half-naked drug addict injecting heroin outside his front door 'was told to destroy the footage by council workers in case it embarrassed the woman'

A furious neighbour who caught a half-naked heroin addict injecting on his doorstep outside his flat - in scenes he has compared to horror film The Living Dead - has been given a dressing down by officials.

The exasperated resident decided to take crime-prevention into his own hands - trying to publicly shame the woman by plastering dozens of posters featuring images of her 'shooting up' around the flats in Tottenham, north London.

He claims that when he alerted his local housing authority, they asked him to remove his cameras and stop filming the apparent criminals -because it would be "offensive" to the drug users.

But the bachelor, who lives alone in his one-bedroom apartment, said his tactics of humiliating the woman with posters of her behaviour were successful and he has saved the block of council flats on Pretoria Road from crime.

The horrified tenant was alerted to the graphic behaviour on his mobile phone when cameras picked up movement and it was messaged to him.

He raced home to the one-bedroom flat, but the woman and two other suspected drug users had already disappeared.

His surveillance camera, hidden inside a door bell, picked up the woman's humiliated and angry reaction a few days later as she stormed over to the picture and tore it down.

He said: "This had been going on for a while but when I saw the woman strip like that right outside my house I knew something had to be done.

"I was disgusted. This was vile, dangerous and unhealthy and to have it inches from your home, where you sleep, made me shudder.

"Watching them every night on the video cameras was creepy. They were like zombies, like the Living Dead, just scurrying around outside my home.

"I carried on filming them every day, and complained but nothing was ever being done. The police did nothing.

"The council actually asked me to remove my cameras and stop filming them, like it was offensive to the junkies and they wanted to protect them more than the residents."

The man moved into the home in 1998 but problems began in early 2015.

At first he turned a blind eye to the issues believing they would go away but the alleged "infestation" of heroin users became worse.

His doorbell camera captured endless hours of them swarming "like locusts" outside his flat, which is the last property on the fourth floor of the building.

He then captured the disturbing footage of the woman injecting herself while two men appear partially clothed on the stair will a few feet to her hight.

The exasperated resident decided to take direct action, and produced his own wanted-style posters in December last year which finally began to deter the addicts.

The resident has also handed all the footage to police and is only sharing it now because he feels safe enough that the drug users are not returning.

However, he does not want to be named for fear of reprisals.

He added: "I complained for two years and nothing was done about it. I filmed them for hours and hours.

"I had confrontations with them and told them to get out of there but they kept coming back. That was until I made the posters shaming the woman.

"It's like I single-handedly cleared them out when nobody was doing anything else. I had to take the law into my own hands.

"I was abandoned by the local authority and the police. Nobody was interested in protecting the rights of law-abiding people."

The local housing authority, Metropolitan, have been approached for comment by Mirror Online.

A Haringey Council spokesperson said the authority would not be able to use any information from covert cameras and any evidence obtained this way would be inadmissible.

They added: "We take concerns about street drugs activity very seriously.

"Anyone who has information about drugs activity in their neighbourhood can report issues online or via our dedicated anti-social behaviour action line.

"We recognise that drugs misuse can cause a number of problems, which is why we also offer a range of advice and support services for people affected by substance misuse, including drug users and their families."