A WOMAN erected a screen across her neighbour’s bedroom window, played “deafening” music and annoying electronic barking sounds after her application to open dog kennels was rejected, a court heard on Tuesday.

Rhiannon Alexa Binyon, 37, of Baron Hill, Llanfair yn Neubwll, near Holyhead in Anglesey, received a 12 weeks jail term, suspended for a year. She must also undertake 150 hours unpaid work and a rehabilitation activity.

Binyon was convicted after a trial of harassing two neighbours including at the Cymyran Hotel.

Hotelier Mrs Prydwen Maclean, 76, told magistrates at Caernarfon:"On numerous occasions I have had guests complaining about the noise coming from Baron Hill, mostly about the dogs barking and loud radio playing and noise from machinery.”

The victim’s husband died in December 2018, a couple of months before the harassment began.

She said the barking came from a machine and real dogs, and plastic had also been burned.

The widow, who’d lived at her rural home for 40 years, said she felt “miserable and depressed” to be boarded up outside her window, leaving her only able to open it by eight inches.

“Many of my guests and bar customers have complained about endless noise of dogs and machinery and smell of smoke,” she said. “The value of my hotel has depreciated.”

Mrs Maclean added :"I don’t feel safe in my own home. It’s time she realised I was entitled to not want to have kennels next door to my hotel.”

Another neighbour David Brooks, 74, a former South African air force pilot, told the court that when Binyon moved in to the once peaceful neighbourhood “our world was turned upside down.”

His voice breaking with emotion, the villager said :”At the height of the abuse we were being targeted 24 hours a day.”

He and his wife Dot, 75, had been “driven out of our own beloved garden” by a “vindictive” woman.

He said :”I am begging for one simple thing. I want Miss Binyon to be forced to face the reality of her unacceptable behaviour.”

The Brooks’, too, didn’t feel safe in their home.

Binyon told a probation officer she fed ducks and the dog sounds were to scare away other birds because RAF Valley’s runway was nearby.

The former animal management college lecturer had moved to the property in 2017 to start a business and now ran a cattery.

Patrick Geddes, defending, said numerous allegations were made against Binyon but not all were proved.

Fires, lights and general dog barking weren’t seen as harassment. There was also an allegation of manure deposited under Mrs Maclean's window.

Mr Geddes said the recorded noises were, in part, used to scare away birds. He said Binyon cared for elderly family members.

“For the moment Miss Binyon will remain where she is,” the lawyer added.

Magistrates’ chairman Alwyn Lloyd Ellis told her :”Your actions over a prolonged period caused considerable distress to Mr Brooks and Mrs Maclean.

There was no reason whatsoever for you to harass your neighbours in this way.

To this day you haven’t taken responsibility, minimising your actions and blaming your victims.”

Binyon must pay £755 costs. A restraining order, to last indefinitely, bans contact with her neighbours and prohibits her from having the barrier in front of the window.

Prosecutor Diane Williams said, if it remained, that would be further harassment.