Pest blares Radio 4 to drive neighbouring family out of their home
AN ECCENTRIC plagued his neighbours by blasting out BBC Radio 4 at high volume in the early hours.
Loner Robert Thomas forced Stewart and Juliet Dunlop to move by turning up his radio to deafening levels.
The 59-year-old would switch the sound on and off repeatedly as the couple and their two teenage children tried to sleep at their house in Hanham, Bristol.
Bristol Crown Court was told Mr and Mrs Dunlop tried wearing earplugs and asking Thomas to turn it down.
But the noise penetrated the earplugs and he ignored their requests and became more aggressive.
He sprayed the Dunlops with a hose and threw a garden ornament through their car window.
Robert Reid, prosecuting, said the Dunlops first suffered at Thomas’s hands two years ago and were still being harassed last autumn.
Thomas admitted breaching an interim Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) four times between September and October 2011.
Mr Reid said: “On September 14 the Dunlops were woken by loud music at 5.15am. The same happened on September 16 and 17 when Mr and Mrs Dunlop were again woken by loud music from the defendant’s house. It was not just continuously loud music – it was being turned on and off, which is particularly irritating.
“It was not just music but a radio played loud and knocking against the wall.”
Oliver Wilmott, defending, said Thomas had a delusional disorder. Thomas had a record for anti-social behaviour and was once cautioned for persecuting the Dunlops.
Recorder Oba Nsugbe imposed a six-month community order with supervision on
Thomas and told him: “You played music at times which were inappropriate and in a manner bound to cause disruption and upset.”