Neighbour from hell given an Asbo

Amy Marie O'Donnell, 24, subjected people living near her parents in Arram Grove, on Hull's Orchard Park estate, to such abuse that two had to move away for their own safety. One was a single mother with learning disabilities and epilepsy whom O'Donnell left "a complete wreck".

She has now been made the subject of a two-year anti-social behaviour order (Asbo).

Pc Allister Kennedy, from the Northern Neighbourhood Policing Team, said yesterday: "There were six residents in the street whom she absolutely terrorised .

"O'Donnell is a particularly nasty bit of work. She tended to target vulnerable people.

"One of the residents, who now lives elsewhere, had her fencing stolen and she was assaulted in her garden twice."

Residents witnessed one occasion when O'Donnell and others attacked the woman with learning disabilities after subjecting a friend to a torrent of abuse.

A neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: "He started to leave and before he got his bike out of the garden gate Amy was in his face calling them names.

"She was tugging on his bike but he managed to get away from her and ride down the Grove.

"Five minutes after that they all came out and she (the woman with learning disabilities) came out of her garden gate and they beat her up.

"There were three of them and they got her on the floor and they were slapping her and kicking her and all the time she was calling for help."

She added: "Because she had health problems and learning problems the young girl who lived at number 31 was a prime target.

"She was a nervous wreck. She was here morning, noon and night. She was petrified.

"They really did make her life a living hell. I saw her beat her up. I saw her banging on the windows and doors."

O'Donnell now has been banned from the area – but can still visit her parents, and according to police is continuing to be a nuisance.

Neighbours – who themselves have run a gauntlet of abuse – say they would have preferred a complete ban on her entering the street. One said: "To me she is like a fuse on a bomb and she is waiting to go ."

But they thanked local police for their support: "The police officers have been really, really supportive and they have done all they can," said one of them.

Pc Kennedy said he first met O'Donnell six years ago and on that occasion she shouted abuse at him and fellow officers. He added: "This Asbo will help police to deal with O'Donnell in a robust and effective way, but we would urge anyone who sees her breaching her Asbo to contact Humberside Police".

O'Donnell is banned from engaging in behaviour that causes harassment, alarm or distress, and being anywhere in Carnaby Grove or Arram Grove, except for going to 29 Arram Grove, and then only via Greenwood Avenue. She is also prohibited from being anywhere within 14th Avenue between the junction with 20th and 8th Avenue and between the junctions with 12th and 16th Avenue.