A neighbour-from-hell has been found guilty of tormenting a pensioner and care home staff during a two-month campaign of offensive behaviour.
Andrew McKiddie hurled stones at one woman’s window as she put her make-up on and tipped a full wheelie bin out into her garden.
McKiddie – who once refused to do community payback because he didn’t want to spend time with other criminals – was found guilty of five charges of threatening or abusive behaviour.
Long-suffering neighbour Jennifer Good, 68, told Perth Sheriff Court that she had installed CCTV cameras because of a number of previous incidents.
She said: “I was in my bedroom putting on my make-up. Mr McKiddie went by and started shouting abuse and throwing stones at my window.”
Bin lobbed over fence
Ms Good added: “I was sitting at my dressing table doing my face. He went by and started sticking his fingers up at me and was shouting at me.
“I pointed to the camera on the window. He said ‘I don’t give two… about your cameras.’ He was a bit irate and I was wondering why. I was uneasy about it.
“There was an earlier occasion where the bin had been removed from the back garden and visibly thrown over the fence into my front garden.”
Abused care home staff
Staff from Hillcrest Futures Care Home in Alyth told the court they had been subjected to foul-mouthed tirades from McKiddie on a number of occasions.
The 46-year-old was found guilty of acting in a threatening or abusive manner in the Perthshire town on April 29 and 30, May 14 and 25, and on 21 June last year.
Sentence was deferred for reports and McKiddie, who has a number of previous convictions, was granted bail.
He was eventually jailed for eight months after telling social workers: “I will not work with sex offenders. The fool that made me work with a sex offender should be pulled up.”
He hurled abuse at social workers and threatened to “chainsaw the bastard” in reference to another member of the work party.
Three years later, social workers refused to work with McKiddie because of his bad attitude towards others when he was convicted of staging a dirty protest at Perth Police station.
