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07
Sept 2022
A 50-year-old woman has been given a suspended sentence for harassing her neighbours in Masham over a period of almost a year.
Summer Sugar was sentenced at York Magistrates' Court yesterday after being found guilty in July of harassment by anti-social behaviour between September 15, 2019, and August 25, 2020.
Magistrates heard her neighbours were left unable to go about their lives because of the constant fear of what she would do.
She was found to have caused consistent noise nuisance, with intense loud banging on walls for prolonged periods and playing loud music. She had taken photographs of her neighbours in their garden, including their young children, and had made a malicious complaint to Yorkshire Water about them blocking her drain, which turned out to be false.
However, the prosecution said the impact of Sugar's actions should not be underestimated. A victim impact statement written by the mother was read to the court.
In it, she said:
Magistrates imposed a 12-week custodial sentence suspended for 18 months and ordered Sugar to pay a £128 surcharge and £300 costs.
They also imposed a two-year restraining order preventing Sugar from contacting the victims directly or indirectly.
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