Nightmare neighbour Susan Hope harassed couple and was unusual exterior chippy

A neighbour from hell who harassed the couple subsequent door and assaulted a cop has been given a jail sentence of practically 10 months.

Andrew Fleming, who now identifies as Susan Hope, moved right into a flat in Newcastle final yr and initially had a pleasant relationship with the couple subsequent door.

But Rachel Glover, prosecuting, instructed Newcastle Crown Court: “This changed when the defendant began knocking on their door at all hours asking for her phone to be charged and for phone calls to be made on her behalf.

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“[The woman] said she tried to be a good neighbour but it got too much and she began to say no and asked her to stop knocking on her door. The defendant became aggressive and shouted in her face, saying, ‘I will remember this’.”

Hope then went away for a number of weeks, however inside two days of returning in June, they had been banging on the neighbours’ door once more. This occurred on a couple of event, reviews the Daily Mail.

On June 29, the girl subsequent door went to a fish-and-chip store and noticed Hope standing throughout the street, gazing her. Miss Glover stated: “She found her very intimidating. She was terrified and returned home shaking.”

Two days later, the girl was in her flat when she heard shouting from the defendant of their flat that lasted for many of the morning. When the girl obtained in her automotive at lunchtime she heard Hope shouting abuse and threatening to kill her and “punch her face in”.

Miss Glover stated: “She could see the defendant standing at her front window with the window open, shouting at her. [The victim] was frightened, crying and shaking and her husband called the police.”

Hope, 51, of Walkergate, Newcastle, was nicked however then assaulted a cop on the police station.

She was launched on bail on situation she didn’t contact the victims. But over the course of July, Hope knocked on their entrance door once more, and the neighbours had been subjected to extra verbal abuse.

Shada Mellor, in mitigation, stated Hope had served the equal of a 14-month jail sentence on remand and had beforehand been detained underneath the Mental Health Act. The court docket was instructed Hope has autism and is bipolar.

Hope, who wasn’t in court docket for sentencing, had pleaded responsible to harassment, placing an individual in worry of violence and assaulting an emergency employee, and was jailed for 41 weeks and given a restraining order to not contact the victims.

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