Neighbour from hell, 67, who made locals’ lives a misery during campaign of harassment is found guilty of breaching criminal behaviour order after asking resident ‘do you like perving on old women?’

• Janette Moffat was slapped with CBO which prohibited her from parts of Newark
• Moffat, 67, then punched a local man in the jaw after accusing him of stalking her
• Pensioner was handed a four-month prison sentence but walked free from court

A neighbour from hell has been found guilty of breaching her criminal behaviour order after asking a resident ‘do you like perving on old women?’

Janette Moffat, 67, who lives with six cats, made locals’ lives a misery during a campaign of harassment in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Moffat was slapped with an indefinite criminal behaviour order (CBO) at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court in March which prohibited her from certain areas of her home town.

She was also banned from entering a playground, a local school and ordered to stop verbally abusing any young person under 18-years-old.

Janette Moffat (pictured), 67, who lives with six cats, made locals’ lives a misery during a campaign of harassment in Newark, Nottinghamshire

Moffat was slapped with an indefinite criminal behaviour order (CBO) at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court (above) in March which prohibited her from certain areas of her home town

But Moffat was hauled back before a court after she asked a dog-walker if he ‘liked perving on old women’ after he saw her stood in her driveway in her dressing gown.

She also punched the man in the jaw after accusing him of stalking her and called him a ‘dirty man’ on the evening of April 22.

Moffat appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday where she was found guilty of assault and breaching her CBO.

She was handed a four-month prison sentence but walked free from court after JPs agreed it had already been served in way of her eight-month curfew.

Moffat was ordered to pay £620 in costs and £250 in compensation and warned she would be jailed for any further offences.

JPs were told she had breached the order by making contact with the man who had been walking along John Gold Avenue in Newark with his pet dog.

He said he heard Moffat banging on her fence, causing him to look around and see her stood outside in her dressing gown.

The victim said: ‘As I walked past her driveway she had clearly seen me come past and made one loud bang.

‘I turned round and saw Miss Moffat at the fence in her dressing gown.’

Moffat admitted she had muttered under her breath to herself ‘do you like looking at old women’.

When she was overheard by the man and asked to repeat herself, she again said in a louder voice ‘do you like perving on old women’ which was ruled breached her CBO.

When asked if she had shouted, Moffat told the court: ‘I’m a little deaf in one ear.

‘Sometimes you have to shout when you’re deaf in one ear but I don’t admit I shouted.’

Moffat was also convicted of assaulting the same man in an incident later that evening.

He told the court he had overheard the end of an argument between Moffat and another neighbour over their garden fences at around midnight.

The victim added: ‘I heard my neighbour say “is that a threat” and Miss Moffat replied “yes”.

‘I wanted to assure him I would back him up.’

When he arrived at the neighbour’s house, Moffat and her son Mark were on the doorstep. 

They turned their attention to him and he began filming the confrontation.

His video footage, shown in court, captured him backing away in the street as Moffat struck him and accused him of stalking her and calling him a ‘dirty’ man.

The court heard Moffat had struck the man in the chest and punched his jaw, leaving him ‘uninjured but shocked’.

Moffat claimed it was in defence of her son whose arm the man had pushed away from him.

Newark and Sherwood District Council and Nottinghamshire Police said previously they had taken legal action to ‘ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents’.

David Lloyd, leader of Newark and Sherwood District Council, said: ‘Ms Moffat repeatedly harassed those living in her local area, with neighbours left feeling unsettled in their own home.

‘We will not tolerate this unacceptable behaviour and this Criminal Behaviour Order shows the courts also recognise the need for action in this case.

‘I hope this order allows those affected to feel more settled in our community, without fear of constant harassment.

‘I also hope Ms Moffat moves forward from this and accepts the support she has previously been offered.’

Moffat has also contacted her local newspaper several times to make wild claims which included someone trying to kill her and her six rescue cats and people taking pot shots at her fences with firearms.

Inspector Matt Ward, of Nottinghamshire Police, said previously: ‘It is always disappointing when a person’s detrimental behaviour can’t be effectively changed for the better through the work of my officers and our partners at Newark and Sherwood District Council.

‘But I am pleased that through that joint work we have been able to evidence the need for a CBO to be issued to Ms Moffat.’

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