'Jealous' mum waged hate campaign against neighbour believing she had affair with boyfriend

Ashleigh Jackson, 37, repeatedly abused a pistillate who was near acrophobic to permission her location and adjacent fearing for her beingness astatine the tallness of the hatred run against her

A "jealous" mum waged a hatred run against a neighbour whom she falsely believed was having an matter with her boyfriend.

Ashleigh Jackson, 37, of Sandbach Road, Sale, Trafford,banged connected the woman's beforehand doorway branding her a "tramp" earlier messaging her connected Facebook accusing her of having an matter with her then-partner Nathan Lee.

Prosecutor Emma Clarke told Manchester Crown Court: "She told her she was mistaken and started to disregard her. The pursuing time the suspect shouted astatine the unfortunate calling her a 's***' successful beforehand of her child."

Jackson's abusive behaviour escalated with the mum sending the neighbour aggregate messages connected Instagram calling her a "tramp" and a "dark b****." That aforesaid 1 Jackson banged connected her doorway and shouted.

“The adjacent time the suspect knocked connected her doorway and she chose to unfastened it to effort and diffuse the situation," Ms Clarke added, The Manchester Evening News reported. "She asked to spot the woman' s emails, she said her spouse was successful situation and believed helium had been communicating with her."

That aforesaid nighttime 3 men were spotted extracurricular the woman's location earlier her room model was smashed. Jackson was not charged successful transportation with that peculiar incident.

The neighbour was further subjected to abusive messages earlier a stone was thrown into her bedroom. The pistillate said she felt unsafe to permission her home.

Officers aboriginal arrested Jackson for harassment and she went connected to archer them: "You can’t apprehension me, it was Nathan, he’s doing this. Ring wood Bank, Nathan’s doing it from the inside."

The tribunal heard Lee was jailed earlier this twelvemonth for attacking a antheral portion wrong Jackson's home. She was released nether probe and told not to interaction the neighbour.

But Jackson continued to connection her and went to her location wherever she called her violative names. In 1 incidental the pistillate checked her Ring doorbell erstwhile she saw Jackson who shouted: "[Name] you're a f****** s***." The authoritative added: "She aboriginal heard bangs connected her beforehand doorway and called the constabulary arsenic the suspect was extracurricular screaming 'you person been successful my location again'. This near her feeling terrified,

"Events escalated connected March 3 erstwhile the pistillate was walking backmost from the store with her young daughter. She saw a achromatic Mercedes reverse onto a roadworthy earlier driving towards her astatine speed. She retreated onto a driveway to debar getting hit, and recognised it was the suspect who was driving.

“The suspect shouted astatine her and accused her of being successful her house. The complainant ran home, arsenic she did the suspect reversed the conveyance and shouted ‘I’m going to bash thing to your face'."

Several days later, erstwhile the pistillate was watching TV, she heard a banging sound connected the room window. She aboriginal announcement the model framework had been dislodged.

Jackson was further arrested and interviewed and claimed the pistillate had been into her home. Jackson went to her location connected different juncture and claimed she had stolen £100 from her.

Judge Alan Conrad KC said: “This was misplaced jealousy connected the defendant’s part.” The pistillate said successful a connection that she "genuinely feared her beingness was astatine risk." She added it had impacted her intelligence health.

Rachel Cooper, defending, said her client, who does not person erstwhile convictions, was suffering from psychosis astatine the clip owed to trauma from erstwhile relationships, witnessing Lee's battle and the decease of her grandmother.

“It took clip for her household and friends to realise this idiosyncratic is unwell,” she added. "She was putting holes successful the partition of her ain location and believed radical were covering themselves successful gel to marque themselves invisible. She was not susceptible of knowing her behaviour oregon appreciating what she was doing.”

Ms Cooper said Jackson had been hospitalised successful April and remained determination for a month. She added her lawsuit was connected medicine and was being supported by assemblage intelligence wellness specialists.

Sentencing Jackson, Judge Alan Conrad KC said helium understood she had been suffering from psychosis that rended her "seriously mentally unwell." “I americium satisfied these offences came astir owed to intelligence unwellness and irrational beliefs arsenic the behaviour of your behaviour was fuelled by your toxic relationship,” Judge Conrad said.

Jackson was sentenced to an 18-month assemblage order, 25 days of rehabilitation and 18-month intelligence wellness requirements. She antecedently admitted harassment; unsafe driving; and transgression damage. She was banned from driving for a twelvemonth and made the taxable of a restraining order.