An elderly couple have been fined and given a restraining order after attempting to attack their neighbor with a baseball bat in a row on a snowball.
Patricia and Grenville Moore, both 75, attacked the couple next door after the chunk of ice was thrown at their window last year.
Mr Moore swung the bat on Dawn Halliwell and her partner Jade Edwards, who live with their two children, in January last year, the Bolton Magistrates’ Court said.
The problems then erupted again in May after children played with wood in the street and Mr Moore objected to the mess they were making.
Mr. Moore cursed his neighbors before throwing the pieces of wood in their path.
In a video shown in court, Ms Edwards can be heard telling Mr Moore that she would clear the mess when the kids are done playing.
She said to him, “Shut up and come in. You are embarrassing. “
The court heard that the Moors had lived in their house in Bolton “for many years”, but the problems started when their neighbors moved into a rented house next door.
Mr. Moore admitted to owning an offensive weapon and to using threatening or abusive behavior.
His wife pleaded guilty to using threatening or abusive behavior.
Prosecutor Andrew Sinker said the Moores denied the offenses and claimed their neighbors acted “inappropriately” when questioned by police.
Adam Whittaker, defending, pointed out that the Moores were previously of good character and had never been in trouble with the law before.
He said: “This case could and should have been resolved in a completely different way.
“There were a lot of issues here, mostly caused by the frustration of these two with what they thought was inactivity over public nuisance. “
He added that the Moors live in their own ‘immaculate’ home and that there was no problem until Ms Edwards moved in 10 years ago and her partner arrived four years later.
Mr Whittaker added: “There were some initial issues, but over the last couple of years things have gotten very, very tense.
“He’s a man who is less patient than before. He is a man who is less tolerant than he was and perhaps should be. “
He added that Mr Moore had become frustrated because their own CCTV footage showing incidents with their neighbors was automatically deleted as they attempted to show police.
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Mr Whittaker told the court there had been “antagonism on both sides”.
He added: “There were many correspondences sent to the police regarding anti-social behavior, beating on the party walls, loud music, alcohol consumption in the front garden and on the street in the city. ‘outside.
“You don’t make a 75-year-old man of good character behave like that without provocation. “
Mr Whittaker said the Moore house was their “pride and joy” and that they had become upset by the mess in the nearby garden, which was eventually cleaned up.
The court heard that the catalyst for the Moore’s behavior in January was a snowball thrown at their window and Mr. Moore lost his temper.
Mr Whittaker said he was pushed and had difficulty getting up and Ms Moore screamed because she was angry with what had happened to her husband.
The magistrates learned that there had been no more problems between the neighbors during the last seven months.
Judicial President Lindsay Charidemou told retirees: “It’s a shame when you’ve been living in your house for so long and then you have neighborhood disputes.
The Moores have been on parole for nine months and each have to pay £ 75 in prosecution costs plus £ 22 to run victim services.
A restraining order was issued prohibiting them from having any contact with Ms Halliwell or Ms Edwards.
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