Moment furious Notting Hill resident bats away Carnival reveller with her walking stick as CCTV catches him relieving himself outside her £600k property 

This is the moment a furious resident batted away a Notting Hill Carnival reveller with her walking stick as he used the front of her property as a toilet. 

The row of luxury properties within the west London enclave are targeted every year – with people using the gardens to take drugs, eat takeaways and relieve themselves after a day of drinking.  

Footage captured on a homeowner’s CCTV camera over the bank holiday weekend shows his neighbour fiercely confronting a man as he urinates on the edge of her property while talking on the phone. The woman storms out of her front door and whacks her stick against the wall, startling the man who makes a swift getaway. 

The homeowner, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Daily Mail he has to have the patio at the front of his £600,000 flat professionally cleaned each year. 

He said: ‘Disgusted is one way of looking at it, but the following days the area still smells of urine. It doesn’t just go on for a day or two, it lasts for a few days.’ 

The man’s daughter and partner are so fed up with the behaviour that they fly to Spain during the event while he stays in the house with the family dog.

‘For me as a parent, I don’t get to spend time with my daughter and partner because they can’t stand it,’ he said. ‘You’re either trapped here for two days or trapped away for two days. 

‘When you’ve got family it’s a really uncomfortable experience – not something you’d expect in west London.’ 

‘We travel every year to avoid carnival as it’s a headache for our family,’ he told the Mail at the time. 

‘Now, the end of our holiday has been ruined knowing we will be travelling back to our home which has been used as a toilet. Watching the videos over makes me sick. Knowing people act in this manner is outrageous.’

Three years ago, he decided to avoid the carnage by going on holiday to Spain, only to watch his CCTV in horror as carnival-goers took turns urinating in his front garden and inhaling nitrous oxide. 

The disgusting footage showed revellers leaning down to urinate behind the gated wall outside the property. Many use their friends as lookouts to make sure homeowners aren’t watching as they go to the toilet.

This year, he explained, he had invested in fencing to deter revellers from entering his property, but it has not worked. 

Police made a record 636 arrests during the carnival this year, the festival’s 60th anniversary, up from 528 last year and 334 in 2024. Offences ranged from possession of drugs and weapons to violent and sexual assaults. 

Cleaners faced the daunting task of tackling huge mounds of litter on Monday night after the carnival finished. 

Streets surrounding the festival were pictured full of piles of rubbish consisting of raw chicken carcasses, takeaway boxes, beer cans and cigarette butts. 

Cultural icons such as red post boxes were left covered in plastic bags and drinking cans, which had been dumped over the course of the weekend.

The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea estimates its annual clean-up and staffing bill for the event as £1million, of which it sees around £300,000 back in street trader fees. 

A total of 242 arrests took place at the festival in west London on Sunday and 394 on Monday – with offences ranging from possession of drugs and weapons to assaults, including attacks on emergency workers and sexual offences. 

Live facial recognition technology resulted in 121 arrests and 86 registered sex offenders being stopped. Seven of the sex offenders were found to be breaching their conditions and were arrested. 

Stop and search resulted in 68 weapons, including a handgun, being found. There were two assaults with knives, one stabbing and one slashing, neither of which resulted in life-threatening injuries. 

Notting Hill Carnival attracts millions of people each year over the two days, with partygoers seen climbing on top of bus stops and engaging in racy dancing. 

Million-pound homes and businesses were left surrounded by litter following the festival, with the window of one property left with dozens of takeaway boxes stacked on its sill. 

Many residents had already boarded up their properties ahead of the carnage, with photos from last week showing luxury flats and houses protected by temporary coverings. 

Official estimates suggest the carnival annually contributes almost £400million to the wider economy – but comes at a cost to taxpayers.

The Met’s policing operation cost £15.7million last year, up from £11.7million in 2023, while City Hall gave organisers an extra £4.6million grant for stewards and CCTV on top of the near-£1million already pledged to support the event.

Some have called for the Carnival to impose an admission fee to help cover costs.  

James Ford, a former adviser to Boris Johnson when he was Mayor of London, said in City AM last week: ‘If London can’t turn a reasonable profit  or at least cover its costs – on one of the biggest street festivals in the world, then there is something fundamentally wrong here.’

Organisers insist the carnival is safe and labelled criticism of it ‘unfair’.