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“Nuisance neighbour” faces eviction action 30/3/11
A Stornoway woman is facing legal action to evict her out of Stornoway home after being sent to prison for 12 months for a raft of offences today.
Residents of Queensland Road in Manor Park, Stornoway, lodged a list of complaints
to Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) alleging Maureen Mackenzie was involved in
a numerous disturbances and anti-
It is believed to be the first case of its kind in the five years since the social homes landlord took over the council housing stock from Western Isles Council.
Maureen Mackenzie, 44, of 3 Queensland Road, Stornoway, was sentenced when she appeared at Stornoway Sheriff Court over ten incidents.
She previously pleaded guilty to the charges which mostly related to her playing loud music in her home and shouting and swearing inside her house or at neighbours.
She also admitted making false 999 emergency calls and assaulting a police officer.
Mackenzie also accepted an assault and vandalism at the Lewis Bar, Stornoway in the early hours of 6th March.
Fiscal David Teale said she was clearly drunk when entering the pub and fell on the floor.
After being picked up she grabbed a barmaid’s throat and also spat on her.
When staff tried to get her out she pulled the barmaid’s hair with both hands until the bar manger broke her hold.
Mackenzie fell to the floor and kicked her stiletto heel at the barmaid’s stomach.
Mr Teale said she “stumbled out of the bar and sat on a window ledge and hit the rear of her head against a window, breaking it.”
Lawyer Kevin Macpherson said one recent incident was “set off” by a neighbour saying something hurtful about her dead son who tragically died about four years ago. Her windows had been smashed late at night and she suspected the culprits lived nearby.
She was in her own garden assisting the out-
Mr Macpherson said she turned to alcohol as a solace for her tragic background but that created a Jekyll and Hyde character.
He said she was presentable, polite, articulate and sensible when sober.
He said she was distressed the landlord was taking “action through the courts to have her evicted.
He added: “She told me “I lost my son, I can’t lose my home as well.””
Sheriff David Sutherland rejected a plea to keep her out of jail under a rigorous alcohol monitoring schedule and sent her to Cornton Vale prison for 12 months, backdated from 7th March.