Nuisance neighbour sent to prison for upsetting fellow tenants in Milton Keynes

Complaints against the offender started in August, when they were accused of causing "repeated disturbances" and threatening violence against a neighbour.

During one disturbance, it was alleged that the tenant threw bottles of alcohol at the neighbour’s home.

Residents reported the incidents to their landlords, Hastoe Housing Association.

A spokesman for the association said: "In partnership with Thames Valley Police, our housing team took swift action to obtain an emergency interim anti-social behaviour injunction. The court granted the injunction, which prohibited our tenant from contacting the victim and entering the victim’s property.

He added: "The tenant was also prohibited from engaging in disorderly, threatening or violent behaviour. A judge later ruled that an anti-social behaviour injunction was to stay in place until September 2022 and ordered our tenant to seek help for their alcohol misuse."

However, on November 18, at Milton Keynes Magistrates Court, the tenant admitted to breaching the injunction by engaging in disorderly and threatening behaviour towards the victim, and was sentenced to six weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.

The spokesman said: "Then on 1 December 2020, following a further incident a day earlier, the tenant admitted to three other breaches including engaging in threatening, disorderly and abusive behaviour and contacting the victim. The tenant was sentenced to a total of three months imprisonment."

He added: “This is a great example of professional joint working between the police and Hastoe Housing. I believe this sentence shows the serious nature of this type of behaviour, which we will not tolerate. It also demonstrates how the police and housing associations work in partnership to investigate these reports to protect local residents.

"We take antisocial behaviour seriously as we believe everyone should be able to live peacefully and feel safe in their home. We will take action if our tenants act in an antisocial way.”

PC Joe Swan from Milton Keynes police said: "This is a great example of professional joint working between the police and Hastoe Housing. I believe this sentence shows the serious nature of this type of behaviour, which we will not tolerate. It also demonstrates how the police and housing associations work in partnership to investigate these reports to protect local residents.”

Find out more about what to do if you're experiencing antisocial behaviour in or around your home here.