A girl who ‘acted like an individual possessed’ as she threw bricks and cement over her neighbours’ fence as they stood behind it's going through jail.
Joanne Shreeves, 51, was convicted of assault, felony injury and threatening behaviour after subjecting Trevor Dempsey, 62, and Sandra Durdin, 58, to an 18-month marketing campaign of harassment at their residence in Chingford, east London.
Stratford Magistrates’ Courtroom heard how, after 20 years of friendship, a feud broke out over a concrete put up that Mr Dempsey had knocked over within the driveway and changed with out consulting her.
Whereas Mr Dempsey was out of the home at some point in October 2020, CCTV caught Shreeves kicking a fence, throwing a kitchen cupboard panel into their driveway and launching particles at an costly new potting shed.
Because the couple labored on their new fencing later that afternoon, she might then be seen scooping up cement on a shovel and lobbing it throughout, narrowly lacking Ms Durdin’s head.
The 51-year-old was watched from the doorway by her father, Peter Shreeves, a former soccer supervisor who led Tottenham Hotspur for a season within the 90s and is now stated to be affected by Alzheimer’s.
At round 10.15pm that night, she allegedly returned with a sledge hammer and continued her ‘barrage of felony injury’, launching bricks and rocks into the couples’ backyard which broke a hosepipe and a digicam.
Mr Dempsey instructed the court docket: ‘That night, the massive crunch got here alongside, she went berserk. I might hear crashing and banging, I might hear it two tales up, so I went to our center floor the place we might see the CCTV on the monitor. She was throwing boulders, bricks and stuff over the fence.
‘She was like a lady possessed, laughing hysterically. This went on for some time, I truly phoned the police whereas it was ongoing.’
Shreeves then rang 999 herself and pretended to be Ms Durdin in an try and cancel the call-out, the court docket was instructed.
Shortly after 11pm that evening, she could possibly be seen coming outdoors in what gave the impression to be a dressing robe earlier than dropping a pair of bricks over the fence.
In one other incident she could possibly be seen shaking the fence as she shouted: ‘You’re a unclean c***, you might be. A f***ing soiled c***. You recognize what occurs to soiled c***s?’
The widespread assault cost associated to an incident, additionally caught on CCTV, wherein Shreeves spat at Ms Durdin’s son Mitchell as he stood within the doorway, after which she was heard ‘laughing and cackling’.
Ms Durdin stated she felt ‘petrified’ after Shreeves approached the couple’s workplace window earlier than making a slicing gesture throughout her throat and saying ‘you’re useless’, which Mr Dempsey managed to movie on his cellphone.
Elizabeth Ajaya, prosecuting, stated there had been ‘makes an attempt to mediate and intervene with out the matter changing into felony proceedings’ however ‘regardless of all that, we ended up having 4 felony circumstances earlier than the court docket’.
Shreeves refused to attend court docket on Monday, claiming she was affected by a medical situation and sleep deprivation.
However District Decide William discovered this ‘extremely suspicious’ on condition that she had did not attend earlier hearings on account of Covid-19 and dominated the trial might go in her absence.
He rejected her earlier claims that the couple had doctored the CCTV and enhancing in her swearing, including that the victims’ proof was ‘clear and constant’.
She's going to face sentencing at Thames Magistrates Courtroom at a later date.
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