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18/05/2006
Businesswoman receives Asbo for hate campaign
A woman who was accused of turning an idyllic rural community into a "hamlet of horrors" has been given an anti-social behaviour order.
Retired financial manager Jeanne Wilding, 57, was accused of being "at war" with at least 15 of her neighbours in Bottomley, West Yorkshire.
She was accused of "running a campaign of hatred and pure evil" in the community, with more than 250 alleged incidents occurring over a period of 16 months.
The complaints included loudly playing a choral work about "rape, pillage and the trashing of villages", causing extensive damage to neighbours' vehicles, booby-trapping pot plants and leaving dead animals, dog faeces and glass and nails in the road.
Miss Wilding had been arrested more than 30 times in the past two years.
At Calderdale Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Deputy District Judge Sandra Keen issued Miss Wilding with an Asbo. She walked out part way through the hearing.
Danielle Graham, who represented Miss Wilding, had told the court that her client had spent so much time in court that she had spent more time with security guards than her own family.
Ms Graham also said that much of what had been said in court had been opinion.
(KMcA/GB)
Retired financial manager Jeanne Wilding, 57, was accused of being "at war" with at least 15 of her neighbours in Bottomley, West Yorkshire.
She was accused of "running a campaign of hatred and pure evil" in the community, with more than 250 alleged incidents occurring over a period of 16 months.
The complaints included loudly playing a choral work about "rape, pillage and the trashing of villages", causing extensive damage to neighbours' vehicles, booby-trapping pot plants and leaving dead animals, dog faeces and glass and nails in the road.
Miss Wilding had been arrested more than 30 times in the past two years.
At Calderdale Magistrates' Court on Thursday, Deputy District Judge Sandra Keen issued Miss Wilding with an Asbo. She walked out part way through the hearing.
Danielle Graham, who represented Miss Wilding, had told the court that her client had spent so much time in court that she had spent more time with security guards than her own family.
Ms Graham also said that much of what had been said in court had been opinion.
(KMcA/GB)
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