Woman drove her car at man in neighbour fued

A neighbour-from-hell who drove at a grandfather after a row over a bag of chicken droppings has been banned from speaking to her victim for 10 years.

- GORDON CURRIE

Debbie Ross - aka Booth - was charged with dumping a bag of chicken faeces on her neighbour's car as well as trying to ram into him as he walked alongside a toddler.

Ross was made the subject of a decade-long non-harassment order after being found guilty of subjecting John Everett to months of abusive behaviour.

She was also made subject to a compulsion order after being found guilty of speeding towards the retired joiner and forcing him to jump out of her way several times.

Ross was accused of hurling the bag of chicken excrement on Mr Everett's car during the campaign of harassment on a Perthshire estate.

She previously shook her head and pulled faces at the jury when they returned guilty verdicts against her on five of the six charges she faced at Perth Sheriff Court.

Sheriff Jennifer Bain KC said: "The evidence heard was that you perpetrated a course of abusive behaviour towards the complainer by driving your car and accelerating towards him and, on one occasion, a three-year-old.