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'Mr Angry' quits home ahead of eviction (http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Mr-Angry-quits-home-ahead-eviction/article-421532-detail/article.html)
NEWTON Abbot's foul-mouthed Mr Angry, who terrorised and intimidated his neighbours for two years, has been booted out of his home, a court heard.
Jason O'Neil and his wife Sharon left their rented home in Bradley Lane at the weekend ahead of an eviction notice that had ordered them to be out by the end of Monday, magistrates were told.
O'Neil and Sharon are now living in the London area, his solicitor Jolyon Tuck told South Devon Magistrates.
For the last two months O'Neil has been the subject of a temporary anti-social behaviour order banning him from intimidating or threatening his neighbours and harassing them by playing loud music.
Despite the fact that O'Neil has now moved out of the area, magistrates made the Asbo permanent and included a ban on him going back to Bradley Lane.
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Teignbridge's anti-social behaviour officer Andy Davies — who described O'Neil in court as the 'most angry man I have ever met in my life' — said that since O'Neil had gone, Bradley Lane was a 'much, much happier street'.
And he praised the residents for coming forward and cataloguing their complaints against O'Neil.
"Since the interim order was granted, life for the residents of Bradley Lane and the businesses has dramatically improved."
He added: "I would like to thank those who provided evidence in this case. I am aware that many were intimidated by Mr O'Neil and I commend them for standing up and being counted."
During the hearing, magistrates were told that for two years O'Neil played loud music day and night, was foul-mouthed to his neighbours when he saw them on the streets, even shouted at them through their windows, and regularly intimidated them.
The music went on so late at night that 50-year-old neighbour Jean Hayman was forced to sleep in her car to get away from it, she told magistrates in a statement read out by prosecutor James Tardjessian.
Her 75-year-old mother Maureen was so frightened of him that she would always take her mobile telephone with her when she went out, so she could telephone home to make sure O'Neil was not about before she returned.
On one occasion when neighbours complained about the music, he dragged a settee out into the street, turned the music up even louder and listened to it from there for more than an hour, Mr Davies told the court.
Neighbour Deborah Christianson said that an elderly neighbour, who had been dying from cancer, had wanted to pass away in his own home in Bradley Lane but relatives had been forced to move him out after O'Neil became constantly abusive to care workers, nurses and meals-on-wheels workers who came to visit him.
And she described life with O'Neil in Bradley Lane as 'hell' and she blamed a stroke which had left her partially sighted on the stress caused by O'Neil.
She said the only relief the street had had in the two years he lived there was when he went to prison for five weeks just before Christmas last year.
Jean Hayman's statement described O'Neil as 'nasty, vindictive and vicious' and told the court: "He likes to sit around in the street getting drunk and playing loud music." She added: "I want this all to stop and I want our lives back."
The magistrates made an anti-social behaviour order to last indefinitely which prohibits O'Neil from carrying out anti-social acts which cause harassment alarm and distress, from intimidating his former neighbours, from entering Bradley Lane and harassing his neighbours by playing loud amplified music. Apart from the ban on visiting Bradley Lane, the order applies wherever he is living and if he breaches it he can be jailed for up to five years.
The hearing at Totnes Court went ahead in O'Neil's absence after his solicitor Mr Tuck revealed he had received a call from O'Neil less than an hour before the case was due to go ahead saying he no longer wanted to agree to an Asbo.
Mr Tuck said O'Neil had claimed that he was in London but had had trouble finding somewhere to live when he admitted that he was subject to an Asbo. Mr Tuck asked magistrates to adjourn the hearing for a fortnight but they refused.
'Mr Angry' quits home ahead of eviction (http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Mr-Angry-quits-home-ahead-eviction/article-421532-detail/article.html)
NEWTON Abbot's foul-mouthed Mr Angry, who terrorised and intimidated his neighbours for two years, has been booted out of his home, a court heard.
Jason O'Neil and his wife Sharon left their rented home in Bradley Lane at the weekend ahead of an eviction notice that had ordered them to be out by the end of Monday, magistrates were told.
O'Neil and Sharon are now living in the London area, his solicitor Jolyon Tuck told South Devon Magistrates.
For the last two months O'Neil has been the subject of a temporary anti-social behaviour order banning him from intimidating or threatening his neighbours and harassing them by playing loud music.
Despite the fact that O'Neil has now moved out of the area, magistrates made the Asbo permanent and included a ban on him going back to Bradley Lane.
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Teignbridge's anti-social behaviour officer Andy Davies — who described O'Neil in court as the 'most angry man I have ever met in my life' — said that since O'Neil had gone, Bradley Lane was a 'much, much happier street'.
And he praised the residents for coming forward and cataloguing their complaints against O'Neil.
"Since the interim order was granted, life for the residents of Bradley Lane and the businesses has dramatically improved."
He added: "I would like to thank those who provided evidence in this case. I am aware that many were intimidated by Mr O'Neil and I commend them for standing up and being counted."
During the hearing, magistrates were told that for two years O'Neil played loud music day and night, was foul-mouthed to his neighbours when he saw them on the streets, even shouted at them through their windows, and regularly intimidated them.
The music went on so late at night that 50-year-old neighbour Jean Hayman was forced to sleep in her car to get away from it, she told magistrates in a statement read out by prosecutor James Tardjessian.
Her 75-year-old mother Maureen was so frightened of him that she would always take her mobile telephone with her when she went out, so she could telephone home to make sure O'Neil was not about before she returned.
On one occasion when neighbours complained about the music, he dragged a settee out into the street, turned the music up even louder and listened to it from there for more than an hour, Mr Davies told the court.
Neighbour Deborah Christianson said that an elderly neighbour, who had been dying from cancer, had wanted to pass away in his own home in Bradley Lane but relatives had been forced to move him out after O'Neil became constantly abusive to care workers, nurses and meals-on-wheels workers who came to visit him.
And she described life with O'Neil in Bradley Lane as 'hell' and she blamed a stroke which had left her partially sighted on the stress caused by O'Neil.
She said the only relief the street had had in the two years he lived there was when he went to prison for five weeks just before Christmas last year.
Jean Hayman's statement described O'Neil as 'nasty, vindictive and vicious' and told the court: "He likes to sit around in the street getting drunk and playing loud music." She added: "I want this all to stop and I want our lives back."
The magistrates made an anti-social behaviour order to last indefinitely which prohibits O'Neil from carrying out anti-social acts which cause harassment alarm and distress, from intimidating his former neighbours, from entering Bradley Lane and harassing his neighbours by playing loud amplified music. Apart from the ban on visiting Bradley Lane, the order applies wherever he is living and if he breaches it he can be jailed for up to five years.
The hearing at Totnes Court went ahead in O'Neil's absence after his solicitor Mr Tuck revealed he had received a call from O'Neil less than an hour before the case was due to go ahead saying he no longer wanted to agree to an Asbo.
Mr Tuck said O'Neil had claimed that he was in London but had had trouble finding somewhere to live when he admitted that he was subject to an Asbo. Mr Tuck asked magistrates to adjourn the hearing for a fortnight but they refused.