A man who shouted and screamed at his neighbour while she was sat in a car with her young child has been sentenced by magistrates.
Drunken Stephen Elliott, 55, had knocked back five pints before approaching the vehicle in darkness at around 5.45pm on December 9 after the woman had left her home and got in with the youngster. She recalled him shouting and screaming something at her while she was inside and his face was close to a window.
CCTV footage with audio played at the city’s magistrates’ court today captured the woman sounding the horn of her vehicle numerous times in a bid to raise the alarm.
Her partner did respond.
“I thought he was going to attack me,” the woman later said of Elliott, citing previous problems.
“I don’t deserve to go through the constant stress, all day every day.” She spoke of having to stay indoors, adding: “I feel trapped and (that) there is no way out, and nobody can help.”
During an interview, Elliott, of Yewdale Road, Carlisle, described being intoxicated and not recalling what happened. In court he admitted a public order offence.
Elliott’s solicitor said the defendant suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, and alleged he been the subjected to abuse from the victim in the past. From the dock, Elliott said after entering a guilty plea: “Two wrongs don’t make a right.”
Magistrates fined Elliott £120 and imposed a restraining order which bans him from communicating with the neighbour in any way for 12 months.
