Moment ‘thug’ yells and violently shoves frail neighbour in bitter row

This is the stunning second an enraged man shoves his aged neighbour as she tries to get into her flat when an ongoing dispute between the 2 boils over.

Video doorbell footage exhibits an irate Michael Tayler rising from his entrance door simply as pensioner Julia Wermig-Morgan returns to her flat reverse.

Tayler, 55, aggressively approached Ms Wermig-Morgan, 70 earlier than yelling at her ‘what are you doing now?’ and ‘get out of my sight,’ after which violently pushed the frail pensioner as she makes an attempt to get in her personal entrance door.

The ‘scary’ incident occurred at a block of flats in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, on May 20 this 12 months and was the fruits of an extended operating dispute between the neighbours which has resulted in every of them being issued with restraining orders in opposition to one another.

Weymouth Magistrates Court heard that Ms Wermig-Morgan, a psychotherapist and Oxford University postgraduate, dislikes her neighbour and that Tayler ‘positively loathes her.’

Julia Wermig-Morgan, pictured right here exterior Weymouth Magistrates’ Court in November 2022, was shoved by her neighbour Michael Tayler

Footage exhibits Ms Wermig-Morgan strolling into the block of flats the place she lives subsequent to Michael Tayler

The aged girl may be seen bending down as she opens her entrance door with Tayler opening his door on the identical time

The pair had made complaints about one another to authorities up to now, with Ms Wermig-Morgan accusing her neighbour of being a ‘drug supplier’ who wished to ‘take over’ the block of flats by which they reside. Tayler, who’s unemployed, has denied the claims. 

Relations between the 2 are believed to have turned bitter quickly after he moved into his housing affiliation flat reverse Ms Wermig-Morgan simply over three years in the past. She owns her one-bedroom property, which is price round £200,000.

Following quite a few earlier incidents, she claimed: ‘He has rages. I known as 999 earlier than when he was making an attempt to interrupt down my door, however the police did not come for 30 hours and after they did, they did not take an announcement.

‘He tried to inform them that I used to be harassing him. He is 6ft 4ins and 18 stones and I’m 5ft 4ins and disabled however I stand as much as him.’

Without producing any proof, she alleged: ‘What he shouts and screams at me is ‘you do not obey me.’ He has threatened to kill me earlier than so it is bloody terrifying. He desires me to have to maneuver as a result of I do know he’s a supplier and since he desires management of the constructing.’

In the most recent incident captured by the video doorbell, the court docket heard that the assault on Ms Wermig-Morgan was utterly unprovoked and pointless by Tayler who was watching his neighbour return by the spyhole of his entrance door.

The court docket was instructed that the neighbours reside on the identical touchdown with their entrance doorways going through one another and that Ms Wermig-Morgan was already topic of an earlier restraining order instructing her to steer clear of Tayler, which she had adhered to.

An enraged Tayler seems to lift his fist at Ms Wermig-Morgan as he leaves his flat to confront her

He then seems to push the shocked girl into her personal flat, yelling ‘get out of my sight’

Charles Nightingale, prosecuting, stated: ‘The defendant’s speedy neighbour is Julia Wermig-Morgan. The two have a fraught relationship, every has made complaints concerning the different, each of them with success.’

Ms Wermig-Morgan is topic to a restraining order for her conduct in relation to Mr Tayler. She dislikes the defendant, and he positively loathes her.’

Referring to the incident, he added: ‘It could be greatest in the event that they ignored one another, however the defendant merely failed to take action on May 20.

‘Ms Wermig-Morgan got here in from the surface space. The incident commenced by him popping out of his property. He has a spyhole in the course of his door. He was both ready, trying by the spy gap, or he occurred to look by and determined to have a confrontation slightly than keep away from it.

‘She has achieved nothing to trigger this incident. She’s an older girl and feels her life is being made a distress by the defendant. She has complied with the order in opposition to her and needs the defendant would simply depart her alone. They ought to each be able to ignoring one another.’

Simon Lacey, defending Tayler, stated: ‘This dislike is one which has been occurring for a while. Mr Tayler says he does not detest this girl, he desires to assist her however as you may see issues aren’t going properly.

‘He feels that she is the reason for all the issues, she most likely has an reverse view of him. He appears to have come to the top of his tether, he is gone out and he or she’s simply coming again in and he pushes her as we now have seen.

‘A wiser individual would have prevented and ignored her. This is a neighbour concern. They have to keep away from one another so issues do not get out of hand once more.’

Following the listening to on December 20, Tayler was issued with a 12-month restraining order by Justice of the Peace Tobert Ford, who warned him that he ought to keep away from his neighbour in future or may face being despatched to jail.

Mr Ford stated: ‘If you each come out your doorways on the identical time, your resolution is straightforward – you return inside otherwise you move her with out making any contact.

‘If you breach that restraining order in any approach, form or kind, we’d anticipate that you’d go straight to jail. Have nothing to do together with her in any way.’

Tayler was additionally given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £26 sufferer surcharge and £85 prosecution prices.

Afterwards, Ms Wermig-Morgan stated she was ‘completely livid’ Tayler had been ‘let off’.

She stated: ‘He is a thug and what he did was bloody terrifying. They have let him off flippantly. I’m completely livid.’