AN ABERGAVENNY resident broke down in tears in the witness box at Cardiff Crown Court as she gave evidence about the alleged behaviour of her 83-year-old neighbour - the so-called ASBO pensioner Dorothy Gertrude Evans.
Mrs Angela Casa told the court, "I'm on anti-depressants and I can't sleep at night you don't know the half of it."
Mrs Casa said that Dorothy Evans had even beaten her with a walking stick.
Evans of Park Crescent, Abergavenny, has pleaded not guilty to ten charges of breaching an anti social behaviour order made by Blackwood Magistrates in May 2005 banning her from causing harassment, alarm or distress to neighbours living on either side of her.
Prosecutor Phillip Morris said Evans had a dispute with the Casas about parking and with the Stafford family - her other neighbours - about a boundary.
He claimed that she breached the order on several occasions between September 2007 and June this year.
He told the court that Evans had called Mrs Casa a slut and said she was out all hours of the night with different men.
He said, Evans had also said that Mrs Casa's son was a lazy b*****d and had called her 15-year-old daughter a bitch.
Mr Morris said, "She called Mrs Casa a bitch and said that tickets for an amateur dramatic show in the town were not selling because she was appearing in it."
It is also alleged that Evans encouraged her daughter Barbara Thomas to drive at Mrs Casa and once repeatedly hit her car with a walking stick.
She also told a member of the Stafford family a curse would be put on Mr Casa and that "God would strike him down dead."
Mrs Casa said Evans had made her a nervous wreck, and had threatened and harassed her on a daily basis.
"All I want is a peaceful life," she told the court. The case continues.