A British court heard a case in which an 81-year-old man used prostitution in a campaign of harassment against a married couple in the house next door, as she encouraged the bird to torture them by singing while sitting in their garden.

The couple, Paul and Lydia Appleton, described the operatic performance as "closer to Chinese torture".

A closed-circuit television camera also detected the old woman Katherine Searle 38 times staining the cover of two car-owned cars with grease.

The British newspaper The Times reported that the Magistrates Court in the town of Maidstone sentenced the widow Searle to a suspended sentence after she admitted to criminal damages and harassment.

In a statement of the victim of the victim, Mrs. Appleton said, "I am afraid for my husband when he is driving on the road and I am afraid that he will have a terrible accident. He is forced to check daily the safety of the tires and the absence of any screws in them and that they were not tampered with."

Ms. Appleton tells that the harassment started in 2004, after she and her husband moved to their new home when they asked their neighbor to reduce the noise. Searle, who has lived in her home since 1977, said the conflict started because of a car park on the road.

The prosecution lawyer said that the old woman was deliberately harassing the couple, and that on one occasion she started playing loud operatic music, which made the parrot sing louder.

The newspaper reported that Searle was subject to an order prohibiting approaching the couple and was sentenced to a 70-day suspended prison sentence of 12 months.