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An 81-year-old woman has been warned she faces jail after being found guilty of harassment and breaching her Asbo. | An 81-year-old woman has been warned she faces jail after being found guilty of harassment and breaching her Asbo. |
Dorothy Evans, from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, was accused of making her neighbours' lives "absolute hell" in the trial at Cardiff Crown Court. | Dorothy Evans, from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, was accused of making her neighbours' lives "absolute hell" in the trial at Cardiff Crown Court. |
Evans was convicted of one charge of harassment and six charges of breaching her Asbo. | Evans was convicted of one charge of harassment and six charges of breaching her Asbo. |
Judge Roderick Denyer QC said: "Despite her age I'm seriously contemplating a prison sentence." | Judge Roderick Denyer QC said: "Despite her age I'm seriously contemplating a prison sentence." |
The judge said it was the only way of bringing home to her that she could not go on "behaving like this". | The judge said it was the only way of bringing home to her that she could not go on "behaving like this". |
Evans, who was not in court on Friday because of a hospital appointment, will be sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 23 March. | |
I don't really care what the sentence is, I just hope she never speaks to me again Angela Casa | |
The jury took just over half an hour to unanimously convict her of the offences against her next-door neighbours in Park Crescent, Angela and Roberto Casa, between January and June 2006. | |
The judge had directed them to find Evans not guilty of a further charge of harassment against Mr Casa. | |
On Wednesday, the jury heard how Evans had told the Casas' 13-year-old daughter she was a witch and would cast a spell on her family and kill her pet dog. | |
Angela Casa described several neighbourly disputes, including over parking and flooding problems. | |
She claimed the pensioner called her a prostitute and also that she tried to run her off the road on several occasions and had hit her with a walking stick. | |
Speaking after the verdict, Mrs Casa said she felt relieved and was "shaking like a leaf" at the news. | |
Arrest warrant | |
She said: "I don't really care what the sentence is, I just hope she never speaks to me again. | |
"I just want to be able to get up in the morning and go out into my garden without having to worry about abuse. | |
"Only recently she dropped her trousers in front of my mother and mooned her." | |
Sentencing was adjourned for four weeks for the preparation of a medical report on Evans' current physical condition. | |
The judge said that if she did not attend that hearing without a very good reason, he would issue a warrant for her arrest. |
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