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02/05/2007
'Neighbour from Hell's' sentence reduced
An 81-year-old woman dubbed the "neighbour from hell' has had her prison sentence reduced from six months to four months at London's Court of Appeal.
Dorothy Evans from Abergavenny in south Wales was sentenced to six months for harassment and six breaches of her Asbo at Cardiff Crown Court on April 17.
At Evans' trial, Judge Roderick Denyer QC said that he had given her a shorter sentence because of her age and said that she would serve a minimum of three months in prison.
However, he said that if she had been younger, the sentence would have been longer, saying that she had made her neighbours' lives "a misery" for the past ten years.
However, Evans' barrister David Webster told the Crown Court that she was "fearful in a way I cannot fully describe" of going to prison.
He argued that a suspended sentence would be the best punishment, because it would act as a deterrent and protect her neighbours.
Mr Webster said: "This is not a woman who is wholly bad but on the evidence has become obsessional about a dispute she has had with neighbours."
The source of the dispute was flooding under Evans' home, which she blamed on her neighbours, Roberto and Angela Casa.
She was convicted of offences against the Casa family between January and June 2006.
At her trial, the court heard how Evans had called Mrs Casa a prostitute, hit her with her walking stick, and told her husband to go back to Italy. She also told the couple's 13-year-old daughter that she was a witch and would cast a spell on the family and threatened to kill her pet dog.
(KMcA/SP)
Dorothy Evans from Abergavenny in south Wales was sentenced to six months for harassment and six breaches of her Asbo at Cardiff Crown Court on April 17.
At Evans' trial, Judge Roderick Denyer QC said that he had given her a shorter sentence because of her age and said that she would serve a minimum of three months in prison.
However, he said that if she had been younger, the sentence would have been longer, saying that she had made her neighbours' lives "a misery" for the past ten years.
However, Evans' barrister David Webster told the Crown Court that she was "fearful in a way I cannot fully describe" of going to prison.
He argued that a suspended sentence would be the best punishment, because it would act as a deterrent and protect her neighbours.
Mr Webster said: "This is not a woman who is wholly bad but on the evidence has become obsessional about a dispute she has had with neighbours."
The source of the dispute was flooding under Evans' home, which she blamed on her neighbours, Roberto and Angela Casa.
She was convicted of offences against the Casa family between January and June 2006.
At her trial, the court heard how Evans had called Mrs Casa a prostitute, hit her with her walking stick, and told her husband to go back to Italy. She also told the couple's 13-year-old daughter that she was a witch and would cast a spell on the family and threatened to kill her pet dog.
(KMcA/SP)
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