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LONDON - An 81-year-old pensioner described by a judge as the "original neighbour from hell" has been jailed for six months.
Dorothy Evans, from Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, was sentenced yesterday for six breaches of her anti-social behaviour order and one conviction of harassment.
Judge Roderick Denyer told Evans that her sentence would have been "much longer" had she been younger.
"Despite your age and infirmities, you have deliberately, for a period going on for 10 years, made life a misery for neighbours. The consequences of your behaviour mustbe brought home to you."
Evans accused one of her neighbours of being a prostitute and hit her with a stick; told another to go back to Italy and told her neighbours' 13-year-old daughter that she was a witch who would cast a spell over the family and kill their dog.
- INDEPENDENT
