Dorothy Evans has been banned from her home by a judge

 

 

 

An 82-year-old pensioner must move from her home of 41 years after being handed a second Asbo banning her from it and surrounding roads for five years.

 

 

 

Dorothy Evans was found guilty on two counts of breaching an Asbo imposed on her to prevent her from harassing neighbours in Abergavenny, south Wales.

 

 

 

A jury at Cardiff Crown Court found her not guilty of eight other counts of breaching her first Asbo.

 

 

 

Evans was also given a nine month jail term suspended for two years.

 

 

 

She had denied 10 breaches of her Asbo which was served in 2005 and which banned her from causing harassment, alarm or distress to her neighbours.

 

 

 

Judge Nicholas Cooke QC made the new Asbo banning her from the house where she has lived for 41 years "with regret", he said.

 

 

 

The order bans her from coming within one square mile of the house she shared with daughter Barbara Thomas, to the north of Abergavenny town centre, with immediate effect.

 

 

 

The judge said the only alternative to the order would be a lengthy prison sentence.

 

 

 

He told her: "I urge you, you ought to change your ways, even at your age, and forget the bitterness and hostility you seem to show to others around you. It does you no good.

 

 

 

"This does not mean that everyone else involved in this was whiter than white, but unfortunately from your point of view it means you have been found to have behaved very badly indeed.

 

 

 

"I hope you can put this behind you and not bother the courts again. If you can't, it will only be your own fault."

 

 

 

Lawyers watched around 90 hours of CCTV recordings as part of the two week trial.

 

 

 

The pensioner has been in a long-running feud with neighbours triggered by a boundary dispute with Gemma and Leon Stafford on one side and a parking row with Angela and Roberto Casa on the other side.

 

 

 

The jury found Evans guilty of breaching her Asbo by harassing the Casa family in September 2007 and by harassing the Stafford family on 5 June this year.

 

 

 

On that occasion, the court heard Evans told next-door neighbour Gemma Stafford that God struck her late father down because she was "living in sin".

 

 

 

Judge Cooke told Evans the abuse was "calculated to cause distress".

 

 

 

He said he did not believe a prison sentence would stop Evans reoffending, telling the court: "She is nearly 83 years of age.

 

 

 

"She has been given a prison sentence in the past, and it did not deflect her from this kind of behaviour.

 

 

 

"Common humanity says I should think long and hard before sending her back to prison."

 

 

 

Evans stayed in a nursing home during the trial, but it is not known where she will now live.

 

 

 

Banning her from her home, Judge Cooke said: "I do not do it lightly.

 

 

 

"I have to consider the fact that is her home, and her long-standing home. I bear in mind it's a heavy punishment in itself. Nothing else will bring this offending to an end.

 

 

 

"This is not a time for calling names and being nasty to Mrs Evans. I wish I could do it in some other way, but nothing works.

 

 

 

"It is given as a matter of humanity. Her behaviour in relation to the matters of which she has been convicted is appalling."

 

 

 

He said if she now breached the order, she could be jailed for up to five years.

 

 

 

The judge also restrained Evans from behaving in a threatening, abusive or insulting way to either the Casas or the Staffords.

 

 

 

Home videos

 

 

 

Harry Baker, defending, was not granted the right to appeal the sentence.

 

 

 

During the trial the Staffords said they had seen Mrs Evans and her daughter in a hole digging with various shovels and spades, and hitting the masonry with hammers.

 

 

 

Two home videos of Mrs Evans and her daughter Barbara Thomas in the hole were shown to the jury.

 

 

 

However she told the court she got on well with most of her neighbours in Park Crescent.

 

 

 

She blamed her immediate neighbours for water flowing through her garden. She said the Casas has blocked a culvert and the Staffords she said had broken a drainage pipe.

 

 

 

After the case, her neighbour Leon Stafford said: "We're not giving any comment but we're really happy."

 

 

 

Here's the link if anyone is interested.

 

 

 

I think this is pretty funny if anything. IMO the lady only has herself to blame for the outcome as it seems she has had many chances, I also saw it on the news on ITV she seems like quite a grouch as she swung her walking stick at a ITV cameraman.

 

 

 

Post your opinions, quite an interesting story lol.

perhaps you should make the title a little more specific

perhaps you should make the title a little more specific

 

 

 

:| It cannot get any more specific...

 

 

 

On Topic: Wow, that woman is just plain nuts...

Serves her right, i mean i doubt most teenagers would ever harasse their neighbours but an 82 year old women should really know better.

:lol: It's funny when old people do bad things.

LOL PWNED

Is Asbo an Anti-Social Behaviour Order? Didn't know what it was, and that wikipedia entry showed up on google. If it is, that's pretty kick [wagon]. I wish we had something like that in the states. Being able to lock people up because they're douchebags?... Sounds pretty amazing. :

just goes to show you, there is no country for grumpy old men (and women).

So basically... old lady acts mean and gets punished. So what?

 

 

 

Whatever, she got what she deserved. I don't know what an Asbo is, but I assume it can't be good.

Seems like a waste of effort for someone as lonely as her

I think the court is right. She behaved badly, she got an Asbo. She broke the Asbo, she got what was coming.

 

 

 

Warren, an Asbo is an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, although it's more of a word of it's own than acronym. You can get it if you repeatedly harass/insult/assault people, and they're basically an order to stop you from doing it again.

My favourite part was when her defendants say shes being shown in the wrong light, and then she gets out teh car and starts whacking the cameramen with her walking stick.

Is Asbo an Anti-Social Behaviour Order? Didn't know what it was, and that wikipedia entry showed up on google. If it is, that's pretty kick [wagon]. I wish we had something like that in the states. Being able to lock people up because they're douchebags?... Sounds pretty amazing. :

 

 

 

 

 

Oh ya.

 

 

 

Well, all I gotta say is damn. She needs to be spanked. (no innuendo intended.)

Is Asbo an Anti-Social Behaviour Order? Didn't know what it was, and that wikipedia entry showed up on google. If it is, that's pretty kick [wagon]. I wish we had something like that in the states. Being able to lock people up because they're douchebags?... Sounds pretty amazing. :

 

 

 

I think its only very rare cases where somebody is locked up, most of the time people who are given ASBO's are just slapped on the wrists, told never to do it again and are not "allowed" to go near a certain place etc.

 

 

 

And most are given to teenagers who see it as more of a trophy than anything else. There pointless really.

Seems like a waste of effort for someone as lonely as her

 

She lived with her daughter.

 

 

 

Oh well, at least the courts worked this time...

Is Asbo an Anti-Social Behaviour Order? Didn't know what it was, and that wikipedia entry showed up on google. If it is, that's pretty kick [wagon]. I wish we had something like that in the states. Being able to lock people up because they're douchebags?... Sounds pretty amazing. :

 

 

 

I think its only very rare cases where somebody is locked up, most of the time people who are given ASBO's are just slapped on the wrists, told never to do it again and are not "allowed" to go near a certain place etc.

 

 

 

And most are given to teenagers who see it as more of a trophy than anything else. There pointless really.

 

They are seen as 'badges of honour' amongst a lot of youth groups, especially chavs, but they do serve as a way to deal harsher penalties to yobs who deserve it.

Is Asbo an Anti-Social Behaviour Order? Didn't know what it was, and that wikipedia entry showed up on google. If it is, that's pretty kick [wagon]. I wish we had something like that in the states. Being able to lock people up because they're douchebags?... Sounds pretty amazing. :

 

 

 

I think its only very rare cases where somebody is locked up, most of the time people who are given ASBO's are just slapped on the wrists, told never to do it again and are not "allowed" to go near a certain place etc.

 

 

 

And most are given to teenagers who see it as more of a trophy than anything else. There pointless really.

 

 

 

Yes, most Chavs see it as an achievement for getting an ASBO for pissing off and causing general disruption to their local community instead of something to deter them from causing distress to other local people :|

What happened to freedom of speech and liberty? Can't the neighbors take simple jokes? are they that vulnerable? If a 82/83 year old women annoys them, then damn, they should get out and see the world. or have they lived a perfect little life?

 

 

 

I think it's sad. She got a restriction order from her *own* house of 41 years for just annoying the neighbors... sad.. great example of how the first amendment of the US Constitution is totally ignored nowadays and is pretty much nonexistent.

 

 

 

Sad

What happened to freedom of speech and liberty? Can't the neighbors take simple jokes? are they that vulnerable? If a 82/83 year old women annoys them, then damn, they should get out and see the world. or have they lived a perfect little life?

 

 

 

I think it's sad. She got a restriction order from her *own* house of 41 years for just annoying the neighbors... sad.. great example of how the first amendment of the US Constitution is totally ignored nowadays and is pretty much nonexistent.

 

 

 

Sad

 

She actually lives in Wales. Good work.

What happened to freedom of speech and liberty? Can't the neighbors take simple jokes? are they that vulnerable? If a 82/83 year old women annoys them, then damn, they should get out and see the world. or have they lived a perfect little life?

 

 

 

I think it's sad. She got a restriction order from her *own* house of 41 years for just annoying the neighbors... sad.. great example of how the first amendment of the US Constitution is totally ignored nowadays and is pretty much nonexistent.

 

 

 

Sad

 

 

 

First of all, it happened in Wales and has nothing to do with the constitution of America. Making a joke of someone's dead dad is not funny and never would be, it's disgraceful and only said to cause distress.

 

 

 

If you lived beside someone causing you distress nearly every day of your life would just sit back and "see the world" or would you try to do something about it to stop the distress.

 

 

 

If a restriction keeps someone from causing distress to others then I fully support it, you shouldn't put the happiness of 1 person ahead of a group of neighbors.

What happened to freedom of speech and liberty? Can't the neighbors take simple jokes? are they that vulnerable? If a 82/83 year old women annoys them, then damn, they should get out and see the world. or have they lived a perfect little life?

 

 

 

I think it's sad. She got a restriction order from her *own* house of 41 years for just annoying the neighbors... sad.. great example of how the first amendment of the US Constitution is totally ignored nowadays and is pretty much nonexistent.

 

 

 

Sad

 

She actually lives in Wales. Good work.

 

:lol: That made my day.