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Last Updated: Monday, 12 January, 2004, 18:41 GMT
Banned neighbour in court again
Richard Lloyd
Lloyd is now living with relatives in Lincolnshire

A "neighbour from hell" who was jailed and banned from a village he terrorised faces another prison sentence for breaking an anti-social behaviour order.

Richard Morris Lloyd, 43, appeared before Llandudno Magistrates' Court on Monday and admitted breaching the terms of the order preventing him from entering Dwygyfylchi in Conwy, where he once lived with his then girlfriend.

The court heard that Lloyd entered the village twice last August after his release from prison to collect his belongings from his former home there.

Those visits happened last August but he was arrested at the weekend while visiting his mother at Penmaenmawr.

On Monday unemployed Lloyd, now living with a family in Lincolnshire, was released on conditional bail for a pre-sentence report.

He was spotted by his old neighbours when he returned to Dwygyfylchi but a defence solicitor said he did not speak to them and there had been no confrontation.

Court chairman James Barry warned Lloyd : "The sentencing court won't be restricted to a community penalty and custody must remain an option."
Noel Kennerley
Mr Kennerley

A former next door neighbour of Lloyd's was rewarded with �1,000 from the Home Office last year for his refusal to be intimated even when his life become a "living nightmare".

Noel Kennerley's determination to stand up to Lloyd encouraged other terrorised residents to join him in applying for an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO).

This was successful and when Lloyd ignored the order banning him from the village for two years - he was jailed for 12 weeks.

"Lloyd constantly threatened to kill me and my family," father-of-one Mr Kennerley said.

"Once he said he would take my daughter away and after he had finished with her, he would kill her.

"He did try and hit my wife with hammer in the garden when he leaned over the garden fence."

"When the council's environmental health officer came to see him, he threatened to kill her and all the people in her office.

"We could also hear him attacking and beating his partner and her screams through the wall."




SEE ALSO:
Village ban man jailed
17 Jul 03  |  North West Wales
'Unruly' villager defies ban
08 Jul 03  |  North West Wales
Q&A: Anti-social behaviour orders
20 Mar 02  |  UK News
Reward for 'neighbour from hell' bravery
03 Dec 03  |  North West Wales


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