Woman found guilty of harassment of former neighbours in Chingford after ‘hate campaign’

A woman who launched an 18-month-long hate campaign against the next-door neighbours at her parents’ £1million home in a wealthy London suburb has been found guilty of assault, harassment and criminal damage.

A court heard how Joanne Shreeves acted ‘like a woman possessed’ when she threw bricks, boulders, part of a kitchen cabinet and a shovel-full of cement over the fence of the luxury property in Chingford Essex, causing £5,000 worth of damage.

Shreeves also drew her fingers across her throat and told Sandra Durdie and Trevor Dempsey ‘you’re dead’ and called one ‘you dirty f****** c***’.

Footage of the vicious 18-month-long dispute, captured on CCTV, were played at Stratford Magistrates Court where Shreeves was ordered to answer charges of harassment, threatening…