Asbo OAP jury considers verdict

Dorothy Evans has lived in in Park Crescent for 41 years

The jury in the case of an 82-year-old pensioner who is accused of breaking an anti-social behaviour, has retired to considered its verdict.

Dorothy Evans, who denies 10 breaches of an Asbo, has been in a long-running feud with neighbours in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.

The order was served in 2005 and it banned her from causing harassment, alarm or distress to her neighbours.

The trial is being held at Cardiff Crown Court.

Lawyers have watched around 90 hours of CCTV recordings as part of the trial.

The pensioner has been in a long-running feud with neighbours triggered by a boundary dispute with Gemma and Leon Stafford on one side and a parking row with Angela and Roberto Casa on the other side.

The jury has heard Mrs Evans also encouraged her daughter Barbara Thomas to drive her car at Mrs Casa.

She is also accused of breaching her Asbo by repeatedly hitting Mrs Casa's car with her walking stick in the feud in Park Crescent in Abergavenny.

During the trial the Staffords said they had seen Mrs Evans and her daughter in a hole digging with various shovels and spades, and hitting the masonry with hammers.

Two home videos of Mrs Evans and her daughter Barbara Thomas in the hole were shown to the jury.

However she told the court she got on well with most of her neighbours in Park Crescent where she had lived for 41 years.

She blamed her immediate neighbours for water flowing through her garden. She said the Casas has blocked a culvert and the Staffords she said had broken a drainage pipe.

Mrs Evans opted to stand in the dock but complained that she could not hear the evidence - nor see what was going on because of her poor eyesight.