A bride-to-be who threatened to blow up her neighbour’s house during a vile 1am rant has been spared jail.
Mother-of-four Sian Hughes, 31, launched a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse on the doorstep of Lauren Jackson’s home having believed her neighbour reported her to the police.
Using Miss Jackson’s Ring doorbell camera, Hughes, of Warrington, Cheshire, screamed: ‘Try to start s*** with me and watch, you’ll be dealing with police when I f******g burn the house down.
‘F*** your cameras. You’re a s**g, I will blow your f*****g house up. Someone will blow up your f****g house’.
Hughes faced jail after pleading guilty to threating to damage or destroy property, but was handed a 12-month community order and hit with a restraining order against Ms Jackson.
Mother-of-four Sian Hughes, 31, (above) launched a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse on the doorstep of Lauren Jackson’s home having believed her neighbour reported her to the police
Using Miss Jackson’s Ring doorbell camera, Hughes, of Warrington, Cheshire, screamed: ‘Try to start s*** with me and watch, you’ll be dealing with police when I f******g burn the house down
The incident occurred at 12.45am on October 6 this year when Hughes turned up outside at Miss Jackson’s home and began shouting abuse.
During her verbal onslaught, Hughes described Miss Jackson as a ‘f*****g little grass rat’ and warned her from contacting the police.
Officers were alerted to the incident after Miss Jackson was woken up by the racket outside her front door and reviewed the footage on her mobile phone.
Prosecutor Tom McLoughlin told Warrington Magistrates’ Court: ‘The threats took place outside the address but were directed at the complainant. Miss Jackson said that the actions made her feel uncomfortable in her own home.
‘She said they were having an effect on her mental health, her sleeping patterns and a detrimental effect on her work.’
Miss Jackson told police: ‘I am constantly on edge in fear of her doing something to me. It is not right. I do not want it to continue.’
It had earlier emerged that Hughes had been embroiled in a five year ‘toxic relationship’ with her fiance and appeared in court for criminal damage after pushing his motorbike over during a row.
In mitigation for Hughes, defence lawyer Ian Weights said: ‘She is having quite a traumatic time at the moment. She is in a relationship at present time, which has gone on for five years in total and certainly, the last two years have been very difficult and turbulent.
‘Her partner is on bail with conditions because of allegations of assault that involve my client which police are investigating. My client received a conditional discharge for damage to his motorbike.
Hughes faced jail after pleading guilty to threating to damage or destroy property, but was handed a 12-month community order and hit with a restraining order against Ms Jackson
It had earlier emerged that Hughes had been embroiled in a five year ‘toxic relationship’ with her fiance and appeared in court for criminal damage after pushing his motorbike over during a row
‘While I don’t wish to trivialise it, it is not the most significant of previous convictions.’
Regarding the Ring camera incident Mr Weights said: ‘She is not someone who sets fire to things. It’s a verbal response after she perceived the neighbour had phoned the police and brought them in person and created problems for her.
‘We use words sometimes that we do not mean literally. She was saying all sorts of things to try and upset the neighbour, speaking to her through the doorbell camera. It was not a pleasant incident, but it never went beyond verbal.
‘When shouting things at a door bell it’s a little bit easy to say things, due to the remoteness of it and not shouting in someone’s face. Looking in a doorbell just seems different.’
Hughes was told she would also have to complete 20 days of rehabilitation activity and pay £234 in costs and a victim surcharge
Sentencing Hughes, chairman of the bench Alan Davies said she would also have to complete 20 days of rehabilitation activity and pay £234 in costs and a victim surcharge.
He told her: ‘You are not used to being before the courts. However, this matter is a serious matter, and your behaviour had a really serious effect on your victim.
‘She speaks of it affecting her mental health, of being on edge, and impacting on her work. These are serious effects. We must at all times consider the victim in this case.
‘We’ve also listened to what’s going on in your life. We read some reports about some of the complexities going on there and have taken a note of this. But these things always have victims, and we are concerned about your victim.’
‘We have given you an opportunity to walk away today, I doubt very much that you will be given that opportunity again.’