AN ABERGAVENNY pensioner was branded "vindictive and evil" by a neighbour yesterday, who wept in court as he described how the 78-year-old widow allegedly harassed him.

Julian Edwards, of Park Crescent, Abergavenny, cried as he described how Dorothy Evans drew her finger across her throat when she saw him one evening in April last year.

"I felt quite sickened and with everything else that's been going on, quite mad," he told Cardiff crown court.

At that point he began sobbing and the hearing was adjourned for 15 minutes for him to recover.

Evans, of Park Crescent, denies six charges of breaching the restraining orders imposed by Cwmbran magistrates in 1999, compelling her not to be abusive towards Margaret Jones, Peter Kenyon, Mr Edwards and their families.

It is alleged she moved her car to prevent a tradesman moving off, obstructing a delivery vehicle, made a threatening gesture towards Mr Edwards, deliberately placing a brick on a ledge where his three-year-old son was playing, and damaged a pond surround.

She is also accused of putting a spade through a garden fence at the home of Mrs Jones, and directing water from a hosepipe at her. Mr Edward's wife, Andrea, said: "She didn't want us to buy the house, which we bought from a police officer."

She claimed a video camera caught Evans digging beneath their boundary fence.

Mrs Edwards said: "She harassed us every day even before we moved in." Under cross-examination Mrs Edwards said: "It's not a dispute, its harassment. She threatened to kill my little boy and hit my husband's car with a sweeping brush." She denied "winding up" Evans.

She said nobody in Abergavenny would buy their house because Evans was known throughout the town.

At one point he said: "She's vindictive, evil, and the whole town knows it." Mr Edwards denied allegations that he called Evans' daughter a name, and said he didn't simulate playing with his genitals in front of her or saying he would "put her six foot under". Proceeding