A West Country pensioner has landed herself back in court for continuing to terrorise her ‘long suffering’ and ‘exhausted’ neighbours. Despite numerous convictions for making her neighbours' lives a misery over a number of years, 76-year-old Barbera Minns this time sprayed them with a hose, killed their plants and made foul-mouthed threats.
Minns, of Daveys Close in Falmouth, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentencing having admitted four restraining order breaches and criminal damage. Prosecuting the case, Emily Cook said the charges all relate to her long-suffering neighbours Adele Richards and Gary Authers who have suffered at Minns' hands for the last seven years.
A restraining order was first made in 2018 then revised in 2022 preventing Minns from contacting Ms Richards and Mr Authers and entering their garden or loitering outside of it. The first incident of the latest batch of offending took place on July 11 last year when Minns played loud music and then when the couple were out she dumped leaves into their garden hitting their cat.
