A retired dog groome was ordered to pay more than £ 1,000 after she repeatedly destroyed her neighbor's garden planter he had installed after her customers were repeatedly parked on his lawn.
'Ouisance Neighbor' Jean Smith started an 18-month campaign of criminal damage in Farnborough, Hampshire, who accused Darren Collins of the failure to make the wooden box visible and to falsely claim that it was affected on her country.
Smith walked out of the plantbuil by attaching bureaucracy to it and repeatedly spraying with luminous green spray paint, magistrates were told, before she called her neighbor a 'thief p *** k'.
The 74-year-old was even accused of 'deliberately demolishing' one of the planters by driving her car over it, although she claimed that it happened to be because it was 'difficult to see'.
This week she was found guilty of several counts of criminal damage – although released from the car trail if the judge is not sure that it was intentional.
The Basingstoke court, Hampshire, heard that Mrs. Smith lived in her £ 580,000 detached house in Farnborough for 30 years, while Mr Collins moved to the house next door six years ago.
Mrs. Smith has to drive through the land of Mr Collins to go to her own driveway, magistrates was told.
Mr. Collins told the court that he had 'no choice', but to place the two planters, filled with the earth, on the edge of his front gazon while her dog care customers' held on his grass.
'Ouisance Neighbor' Jean Smith started an 18-month campaign of criminal damage and is now a fine of more than £ 1,000
Darren Collins put two planters on his country in an attempt to prevent the dog of his neighbor from taking care of clients to park on his lawn
One was damaged by Mrs. Smith in August 2022, a few months after they were installed.
In video shown to the court, the retired A&E employee can push the box while doing a three -point turn to leave her own driveway.
The court heard that she started destroying the other planter in January 2024, first with reflective bureaucracy and then with different colors of light spray paint.
Mrs. Smith, who has lived in the house for 30 years, sprayed the wooden box at least three times and often moved her car to block the CCTV camera while she did.
It was at the point where Mr. Collins, who moved next door in 2019, covered the planter in gray anti-vandale paint to cover the spray that had embedded in the wood and could not be cleaned.
Their 'difficult' relationship came to a peak in February 2024 when Mr. Collins Mrs Smith confronted her painting De Planter and she began to shout against him that he was a 'thief p *** k'.
This was reportedly due to her anger about an earlier incident in which he had not immediately returned a package that was wrongly delivered to his house.
Public Prosecutor Ryan Seneviratne described Mrs. Smith as an 'annoying neighbor' who deliberately had one of the Planters of the Lord Collins as a 'nuisance neighbor' described as a 'annoying neighbor' who deliberately broke down before he repeatedly aimed the other with luminous spray paint.
In video shown to the court, the retired A&O employee was able to push the box while she takes a three-point turn near the house of MR Collins (shown)
The court heard that Smith should drive on her neighbor's land to get to her property
He said: 'Three words come in me on' wooden garden planter ', [Mr Collins] has built wooden boxes that he has placed on his grass, he has the right to put them on his country … [Mrs Smith] Is not to touch it or harm it.
'You will hear that on 25 August 2022 she deliberately drives in the side of the planter, so that it broke.
'[Mrs Collins] Drives forward, you will see broken pieces of the wooden box, it is completely destroyed, she picks up the pieces and throws them in his garden. '
Mr Seneviratne then stated each of the 10 times between January 2023 and January 2024, where the persecution claimed that Mrs. Smith had damaged the garden decoration with reflective tape and luminous spray paint.
He continued: 'She doesn't like him for some reason, this is very simple, this is not something that MR Collins expects to tolerate.
'She has no permission to do that, she says that part of it is by chance and that part of it is necessary because they penetrate her property, they are not.
'She says that no damage has been caused, it is damaged if you change or change it.
'What she chooses is to do [to] Those that annoying neighbor, she chooses to destroy his property on his country, she does it because she has a kind of complaint against him. '
Mr. Collins told the court that he had made the planters of old doors and he had 'no choice' but to install them after Mrs. Smith's customers had driven his grass on 'on' grass.
He said: 'I feel very anxious about where I live and the way my neighbor acts towards me.
'It worries me every time I go to work, something will be sprayed or broken.
'I put those two planters in place because my neighbor's customers drove on my grass.
“I said they'll be moving [cars] I would have no choice there than to place anything there. '
Mrs. Smith told the court that the planter was 'hard to see' and she did not know she had cut it when she left her ride.
She said: 'He had put it pretty close to the shared turning point, the planter was quite small, so it was hard to see.
'I didn't know I had cut it with my wheel.
'I asked him on various occasions to make the planter visible, Mr. Collins simply refused to make the planter visible to us. It is just a problem in the dark. '
District judge Stephen Apted found Mrs Smith guilty of eight counts of criminal damage, but got her from three counts, including the incident by car, because he could not be sure it was intentional.
Mrs Smith was fined £ 400, £ 50 for each violation, and ordered a £ 160 victim to pay a surcharge, £ 620 of the costs of the prosecution and £ 150 to Mr Collins in compensation.
