Daughter of ex Spurs boss Peter Shreeves convicted again

A woman who shovelled concrete and boulders over her fence has been convicted of waging a hate campaign against her neighbours for the second time.

Joanne Shreeves, 51, caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to Trevor Dempsey’s property, including fence, garden flowers and a custom-built potting shed.

Footage captured from cameras belonging to Mr Dempsey, 62, and his former partner Sandra Durdin, 58, appears to show Shreeves spitting at her neighbours and laughing.

Shreeves, daughter of ex-Spurs manager Peter Shreeves, shakes the fence between the properties in The Ridgeway, Chingford, east London, snarling: ‘You’re a dirty c–t, you are. A f–king dirty c–t. You know what happens to dirty c–ts?’

Mr Dempsey had told a trial at Stratford Magistrates’ Court his neighbour was like a ‘person possessed’ when she chucked boulders over his fence on 24 October 2020:

‘There was a big crunch – she went berserk.

‘She went to her garage, took out her shovel and shovelled out what we put in and threw it over the top of the fence and actually hit me.

‘You could see her throwing boulders over the fence throwing stuff at the house and windows.

‘She was like a person possessed, she was a person possessed.’

Shreeves then tried to destroy her neighbours’ cameras using a hose.

Mr Dempsey called police but Ms Shreeves made a follow-up call cancelling the request for officers to come to the scene.

CCTV footage showed Shreeves walking up and down the garden with a large broom, poking it over the garden fence.

She was also shown snipping off tape on the fence that read ‘Keep Out’.

Mitchell Durdin told the court he was left feeling humiliated after Shreeves spat at him.

‘It was during the covid pandemic and there was no vaccine, I was terrified,’ he said.

Giving evidence Ms Durdin had told the court how Shreeves waged war against her in their suburban street in Chingford, where the mock tudor houses fetch £1m.

On another occasion Ms Durdin said she heard some noise and looked out of the window to see Shreeves looking at her.

She said Shreeves called her a ‘dirty c–t’ and she replied: ‘So are you.’

Ms Durdin added: ‘She turns around, makes a slit throat (gesture), and goes ‘you’re dead’ ‘you’re dead’ whilst we were in our own house.’

Shreeves was previously convicted of common assault in relation to Mitchell Durdin and criminal damage in respect of a shed, fence and garden flowers to the value of £440.

She was also convicted of threatening behaviour with intent in relation to the couple by a judge at Stratford Magistrates’ Court last May.

Shreeves had failed to attend her trial due to illness but she has always claimed CCTV footage of her spitting and swearing had been doctored by her neighbours.

She was then granted a retrial by District Judge William Nelson in August after she successfully applied to reopen the case.

Shreeves was found guilty of common assault, causing criminal damage and one of threatening behaviour following her second trial.

District Judge William Nelson ridiculed her claim that the CCTV film of her shot by her long suffering neighbours had been tampered with.

‘To suggest that the CCTV footage has been doctored in any way beggers belief,’ he said.

‘What is seen on that footage is a true representation.

‘They used to live next door to each other and now they have taken up three days of court time.

‘There is clearly an undisguised animosity between all the parties in this case.’

Referring to the incident where Shreeves spits at Mitchell Durdin, Judge Nelson said: ‘In none of the CCTV could I actually see waterdrops, but what I did hear was the sound of a spit.’

Referring to the incident in 24 October the judge said: ‘I am satisfied the defendant threw a large number of objects over the fence.

‘It might be that Carol Shreeves cannot accept the behaviour of her daughter.’

At this point Shreeves said something in the dock which the judge thought was ‘be careful’.

He said: ‘I hope that wasn’t a threat. You said ”be careful.”

‘I said “oh,” replied Shreeves.

‘During the course of these proceedings you have been disruptive and said things to witnesses while they are giving evidence,’ the judge added.

Shreeves was cleared of two further counts of threatening behaviour on 27 June 2021.

She was bailed ahead of sentence on 2 March.