Moment fed-up mother confronts heroin zombies shooting up outside her home after her terrified son, 9, thought one was DEAD (and there’s a legal injecting room just down the road)
- Melbourne mother filmed moment she confronted heroin addicts at her home
- Charlotte Spencer-Roy lives a short walk from North Richmond injecting room
- Her son, Angus, was traumatised after seeing a man passed out near the home
- The mother confronted people, who say lines are too long at the injecting room
A furious mother filmed the moment she confronted heroin addicts shooting up outside her house after her terrified son believed one of them was dead.
Charlotte Spencer-Roy lives ten minutes away from the North Richmond injecting clinic in Melbourne’s east, but still finds people using drugs in the laneway beside her home.
Her nine-year-old son, Angus, was traumatised after discovering a man who had apparently overdosed laying unconscious outside their home.
‘He said ”mummy, mummy there’s a dead body”,’ Ms Spencer-Roy told Nine News.
Charlotte Spencer-Roy lives ten minutes away from the North Richmond injecting room in Melbourne’s east, and often finds people using drugs in the laneway beside her home
The fed-up mother decided to confront the drug-users outside the home.
Ms Spencer-Roy opened her door as two men scrambled to pick up their drug paraphernalia.
‘Why are you choosing to inject here? This isn’t the injecting room,’ she asked as the pair quickly scurried away.
The men told the furious mother the queues at the Lennox Street injecting room were too long and said it was ‘too far away’.
But Ms Spencer-Roy said the controversial injecting room, which opened in 2018, is just a ten minute walk from her house.
One of the men also told the family he was banned from going into the injecting facility.
The family have opened their doors to find people with needles hanging out of their arms, which Ms Spender-Roy said has taken a toll on her son.
‘We’re just fed up. It’s really confronting and it’s really scary when you’ve got a small child,’ she said.
In a video Ms Spencer-Roy opens her door as two drug users scramble to pick up their drug paraphernalia
Her nine-year-old son, Angus, was traumatised when he assumed a man who had passed out in the laneway was dead so she confronted drug-users outside the home
Ms Spencer-Roy (pictured right with her son Angus) lives just streets away from the controversial injecting room in North Richmond
Ms Spencer-Roy said she has also had to call police after being physically assaulted twice by drug-users.
In November she told Daily Mail Australia the neighbourhood had become overrun with drug addicts.
In one instance she told a man to utilise the injecting clinic but he refused and spat on her.
‘That was the first time I’ve ever called police and reported an assault in this area since I moved here in 2003,’ she said at the time.
The family say there has been a spike in anti-social behaviour since the safe injecting room opened in North Richmond.
Ms Spencer-Roy said she was spat on and threatened by a drug addict (pictured right and left) who had been shooting up outside her home in November
‘It’s a magnet. All of Victoria’s drug problems have been dumped on our front doorstep,’ she said.
Ms Spencer-Roy and her husband also claimed drug addicts use the local playgrounds to perform sex acts.
She said she witnessed a man pulling down his pants and exposing himself to urinate on the street while she was grocery shopping with her son.
She noted that the injecting room, referred to by residents as ‘Dan’s Drug Den’ in a reference to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews who approved the facility, was opened right next to a primary school, which saw drug users injecting themselves in the neck at 3pm as children were going home from school.
Victoria Police said they have increased patrols in the area but urge residents not to confront suspected drug-users.
The family say there has been a spike in anti-social behaviour since the safe injecting room opened in North Richmond (pictured)