An elderly couple who were accused of carrying out a six-year campaign against their next-door neighbours, which included throwing dead chickens at their house, were fined a total £6,000 yesterday. According to the prosecution, Brian Zipfell, 60, and Phyllis Hird, 71, attacked the next-door family in some way almost every day. John and Pauline Barlow moved to their four-bedroom, Detached house with their two children in 1990, but the move turned out to be far more difficult than they had expected. They were regularly insulted and sworn at by the elderly couple. As well as the chickens, they had snowballs, stones, coal, 80 wine corks and other missiles thrown at the. Whenever friends came to call on them, loud music would start next door. John Barlow asked the elderly couple to leave them alone and warned them that he would go to the police if they did not give up their campaign, but the problems continued The judge told Zipfell and Hird: 'Over a long period you both carried out a psychological campaign against your neighbours. I do not believe in allowing people to get away with this sort of thing, and this case calls for serious punishment. You and everyone else must be made to realize that we will not put up with this sort of behaviour between neighbours.' Zipfell ngồi ở mặt sau của tòa án trong một xe lăn bên cạnh Hird trong buổi điều trần. Cả hai người trong số họ từ chối bao giờ chửi thề tại các Barlows hoặc quấy rối họ. Tuy nhiên, thẩm phán Fox tìm thấy chúng có tội và bị phạt chúng £6,000. Ông cũng ra lệnh Hird để xem một bác sĩ tâm thần, nói rằng ông tin rằng cô ấy đã chủ yếu là chịu trách nhiệm cho các cuộc tấn công.
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