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A NIGHTMARE neighbour has escaped a jail sentence for flouting her anti-social behaviour order just weeks after it was made.

Shannon Ryan, 26, pictured, was on Thursday given a suspended sentence for breaching the order by continuing to plague neighbours in Abingdon.

She had been warned by magistrates she might be jailed and neighbours were annoyed that Ryan walked free from court in Didcot.

Ryan admitted two breaches of a three-year, anti-social behaviour order she was given in September last year for breaking noise abatement notices.

The Vale of White Horse District Council applied for the order following complaints from neighbours in Daisy Bank, who said Ryan had launched torrents of abuse, hurled beer cans out of windows and played loud music throughout the night.

The mother-of-four, who is unemployed, admitted that just six weeks after the Asbo was imposed she broke its conditions and shouted and swore at officers called to her home.

Rosalind Young, chairman of the bench, also ordered Ryan to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and gave her a supervision order for six months. She reduced court costs of £770 to just £100.

Two neighbours, who did not want to be named, watched the sentencing.

Afterwards, a man, who lives with his wife and daughters, aged five and two, opposite Ryan in Daisy Bank, said: "She has made our lives a misery. The justice system has failed, the sentence wasn't enough for our three years of suffering."

The middle-aged man spoke of how his daughters would wake in the middle of the night to noises from the nearby flat, and described Ryan as "the ghost of Daisy Bank". He said: "She was all the time making noise, slamming the door, shouting, playing music. We couldn't invite family around for visits because of the noise."

Two further breaches of her Asbo, alleged to have taken place in March and which she has denied, were set down for trial on July 8.

1:06pm Saturday 17th May 2008

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