Neighbour from hell spent ten years ordering hundreds of taxis and takeaways and TWO TONS of coal

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**Frazzled**

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133860/Neighbour-hell-ordered-hundreds-taxis-takeaways-coal-victims-house.html

Neighbour from hell spent ten years ordering hundreds of taxis and takeaways and TWO TONS of coal to victim's homePaul Hayward pelted another house with eggs and stones and made 100 silent phone calls in a day
Tormentor jailed for 14 months over decade-long campaign of harassment

By Lyle Brennan
PUBLISHED: 11:35 GMT, 23 April 2012 | UPDATED: 12:51 GMT, 23 April 2012
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Tormentor: Michael Hayward has been jailed for 14 months for his decade-long campaign of harassment
A neighbour from hell has been jailed after he spent a decade ordering hundreds of unwanted taxis, takeaways and two tons of coal to the homes of his victims.
Paul Hayward’s campaign of harassment saw him throw mud, food and rubbish into their gardens and plague them with more than 150 silent phone calls.

His former neighbours spoke of their relief as he was sentenced to 14 months in prison after he breached an anti-social behaviour order on 19 occasions.
Patricia Jones and Jim and Jill Thomas told Newport Crown Court how the 49-year-old father of two made their lives a misery.

Hayward’s house in Machen, South Wales, was sold last month, marking the end of his neighbours’ ordeal.

Ms Jones, 67, said: ‘It was ten years of hell. We couldn’t relax, we were constantly waiting and thinking “what is he going to do next?”

‘Now he has gone, we are no longer thinking “is it because he’s spying on us?” when it’s quiet.’

She looked after Hayward’s two children when he moved in ten years ago and believes the problems started after she was unable to continue.
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He began banging and scratching her walls, she said, throwing stones on her roof and constantly watching her.

Ms Jones said: ‘It wasn’t one week here, one week there - it was constant.’

She also believes he was behind more than 100 unwanted taxis and Chinese meals being ordered to her house over a ten-year period.

Mr Thomas, 71, and Mrs Thomas, 65, said Hayward began picking on their 43-year-old daughter Rachel - who suffers from cerebral palsy - using his car and wheelie bin to block her access.

He would play loud music and bombard them with abuse, they added.

Unnerving: Hayward made more than 150 silent phone calls to neighbours, including 100 in one day (posed by model)
Mr Thomas said Hayward also threw mud, eggs, stones and food at their property and installed cameras and mirrors in his garden so he could watch them.

He added: ‘Now he’s gone, we can at last have a family life here.’

On Friday Hayward was given 12 months for making persistent silent phone calls to the Thomases - with the court hearing 100 of these were made over a 24-hour period last December.

He was sentenced to a further four months, to run concurrently, for ordering two tons of coal and a taxi to Ms Jones’ address in January, and two months for making hoax calls to Gwent Police last November, to run consecutively.

In mitigation, Hayward’s counsel Jeff Jones said his client wanted to cause stress to his victims, not fear, and has made a fresh start since moving to a different address.

The offences amount to a total of 19 breaches of an ASBO imposed in July 2007, preventing Hayward from obstructing his neighbours, assaulting or threatening them or using abusive language. He has been jailed for previous breaches.
Sentencing Hayward, Judge David Morris said he had caused stress to his neighbours.

He added: ‘[The calls to police] were extremely irritating and they took up time on the public telephone network which might have been used by those who had a real difficulty for which they were seeking assistance.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133860/Neighbour-hell-ordered-hundreds-taxis-takeaways-coal-victims-house.html#ixzz1st5yPFoX

**Chowderhead**

Sounds like a fun ten years.

Also, I'm suprised it took ten years for this to happen. I would have expected the couple to have blown a whistle a long time before now.

**MrDwhitey**

It's from the Daily Mail, who knows what the truth is?

**SilverMK2**

Chowderhead wrote:I would have expected the couple to have blown a whistle a long time before now.

Stiff upper lip and true British Grit.

**Chowderhead**

You're upper lip needs to be made of fething adamantium to deal with that for ten freaking years.

**MrDwhitey**

The Welsh don't have stiff upper lips, Silver, so I don't see it applying.

**SilverMK2**

Chowderhead wrote:You're upper lip needs to be made of fething adamantium to deal with that for ten freaking years.

Well, we've managed to put up with the colony's little joke for over 200 years without complaining and will be waiting to take them back into the glorious Empire as soon as they have realised the error of their ways. Don't worry - we'll teach you the lost art of keeping calm and carrying on

**Frazzled**

SilverMK2 wrote:
Chowderhead wrote:You're upper lip needs to be made of fething adamantium to deal with that for ten freaking years.

Well, we've managed to put up with the colony's little joke for over 200 years without complaining and will be waiting to take them back into the glorious Empire as soon as they have realised the error of their ways. Don't worry - we'll teach you the lost art of keeping calm and carrying on

Alternatively, Texas will consider the UK's application to The Greater East Texas Co Prosperity Sphere once you learn how to properly make queso.

**SilverMK2**

Frazzled wrote:Alternatively, Texas will consider the UK's application to The Greater East Texas Co Prosperity Sphere once you learn how to properly make queso.

If you can export some sunshine we might consider it...

**nomsheep**

make what?

Nom

**Frazzled**

SilverMK2 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Alternatively, Texas will consider the UK's application to The Greater East Texas Co Prosperity Sphere once you learn how to properly make queso.

If you can export some sunshine we might consider it...

Deal.

**SilverMK2**

Frazzled wrote:Deal.

Excellent, I will contact Prince Charles directly and get him onto the whole "queso" issue. Tally ho!

**notprop**

I'm looking forward to this, were do I get my complimentary 10 gallon hat?

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

(we're bringing them down from the inside right silver? Sushhhh they're coming)

**SilverMK2**

notprop wrote:(we're bringing them down from the inside right silver? Sushhhh they're coming)

*Dances in something that is not a line*

Bwahaha!

**Castiel**

Sunshine? Sign me up and I'll learn to make this "queso" of which you speak!

**Avatar 720**

What will come over with all this Texan sunshine? What about all the tornados that'll be entering the country illegally and without proper paperwork? How will we stop this American sunshine from taking all of the jobs for our hard-working clouds?

We need to ensure that this exchange is properly regulated and clear, that all possible conclusions are forecast, and ensure that nothing rains on our parade.

Can we be assured that this deal is not just hot air, and that we're not just bathing in the sun that shines out of the backsides of foreign businesses looking to take advantage of what is currently a low-pressure climate?

**Frazzled**

You're good.

**SilverMK2**

Frazzled wrote:You're good.

It's something that we hope to bring to the new Texas Empire

**Frazzled**

Excellent. We usually just lasso a rope around people's feet and drag them around the prairie. I could see where these highfallutin words could come in handy on occasion, like when you're surrounded by hostiles, or the IRS (but I repeat myself).

**SilverMK2**

Frazzled wrote:Excellent. We usually just lasso a rope around people's feet and drag them around the prairie. I could see where these highfallutin words could come in handy on occasion, like when you're surrounded by hostiles, or the IRS (but I repeat myself).

When you don't have guns, you need something to protect yourself. Perhaps we could have a culture for guns exchange program?

**Frazzled**

SilverMK2 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Excellent. We usually just lasso a rope around people's feet and drag them around the prairie. I could see where these highfallutin words could come in handy on occasion, like when you're surrounded by hostiles, or the IRS (but I repeat myself).

When you don't have guns, you need something to protect yourself. Perhaps we could have a culture for guns exchange program?

Mamma always said I was learnd more gooder, but I have spare thunderstick er two I could trade. Do you need a few million wiener dogs to go with that? They get along well with British bulldogs I hear. Something about the shared doctrine of "gettin low."

**Castiel**

Frazzled wrote:Something about the shared doctrine of "gettin low."

Does this result in the creation of "British weinerdogs", or am I on the wrong track?

**Frazzled**

Castiel wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Something about the shared doctrine of "gettin low."

Does this result in the creation of "British weinerdogs", or am I on the wrong track?

No, more like Oscar and Felix, Laurel and Hardy, Vader and Imperial Accountant Bob.

**SilverMK2**

Castiel wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Something about the shared doctrine of "gettin low."

Does this result in the creation of "British weinerdogs", or am I on the wrong track?

Weinerbulls?

**Castiel**

Frazzled wrote:
Castiel wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Something about the shared doctrine of "gettin low."

Does this result in the creation of "British weinerdogs", or am I on the wrong track?

No, more like Oscar and Felix, Laurel and Hardy, Vader and Imperial Accountant Bob.

I see!

**Frazzled**

SilverMK2 wrote:
Castiel wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Something about the shared doctrine of "gettin low."

Does this result in the creation of "British weinerdogs", or am I on the wrong track?

Weinerbulls?

Nooooooooooooooo! Big bulldog faces with wiener dog bad breath in such a limited space (the British Isles) that it reaches a critical mass and cracks the boundaries between time and space!

**Castiel**

Frazzled wrote:
SilverMK2 wrote:Weinerbulls?

Nooooooooooooooo! Big bulldog faces with wiener dog bad breath in such a limited space (the British Isles) that it reaches a critical mass and cracks the boundaries between time and space!

Cue Dr. Who theme music.

**AustonT**

Thank YOU. Mr. Haywerd, my nieghbors are about to enter the dragons den.

**KingCracker**

Man, I honestly think I would of set his fething house on fire. While he was asleep in it.

**rubiksnoob**

SilverMK2 wrote:
Castiel wrote:
Frazzled wrote:Something about the shared doctrine of "gettin low."

Does this result in the creation of "British weinerdogs", or am I on the wrong track?

Weinerbulls?

Or bull weiners?