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Sara Nichol & Charlie Duffield

Drunk mourner threatens to kill his neighbours after being thrown out of funeral wake

A drunk griever was chucked out of a wake and taken home by police as he threatened to kill his neighbours.

Lewis Elliott arrived on the victims' doorstep in the early hours of the morning, and was verbally aggressive.

According to court records the 41-year-old kicked and punched the garden gate, and then pushed past a scared female victim into her home, Chronicle Live reports.

Despite efforts to calm him down, Elliott continued to be abusive and shouted: "I'm going to kill you all" and "I'm going to f******g kill you".

He then tried to enter the property again, prosecutors said.

Lewis Elliott leaves Newcastle Magistrates Court (Newcastle Chronicle)

Eventually, after kicking items in the garden, Elliott left.

He has nine offences on his record, the court heard, and had been at a funeral earlier in the day.

He was kicked out of the wake, and taken home by police due to his drunk behaviour.

He claimed to have lost his keys and went to his neighbours to find his girlfriend but had no memory after that.

Sophie Allinson, defending, said Elliott was classed as a vulnerable adult who suffered from depression, learning difficulties and short-term memory loss.

She added: "His partner is now his carer. He has significant learning difficulties and an IQ of a child."

Sentencing him to a community order, with a £100 fine, District Judge Zoe Passfield said: "The victims are not to blame for what happened that night. They were at home in the early hours of the morning. You turned up drunk and abusive and caused damage and that cannot happen again."

Elliott was also ordered to pay each victim £100 each in compensation.

Newcastle crown and combined magistrates court, Newcastle Quayside (Newcastle Chronicle)

Similarly, several years ago Kirsty Sharman, 26, was kicked out of her house just weeks after leaving an abusive note to paramedics as they treated her sick neighbour.

The woman who left an abusive note on an ambulance on a 999 call has been kicked out of her home after making her neighbours' lives 'hell'.

Kirsty Sharman branded herself the "most hated woman in the world" after she left the note for paramedics while they were treating her sick neighbour.

The 26-year-old told them in the message: "I couldn't give a s*** if the whole street collasped (sic). Now move your van from outside my house."

She was thrown out of her property, as her neighbours described how police were regularly called about her "horrendous" actions.

A court imposed a closure order on the house in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, following repeated complaints about her bad behaviour.

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