'Nightmare' neighbour flashed her breasts and made rape threats

February 15, 2022

‘Living nightmare’ neighbour stripped off, flashed her breasts and made death and rape threats to stunned next door neighbours

Lisa Cartmell, 35, stripped off and streaked around her front lawn in Farnworth
Cartmell threatened to petrol bomb the property of Kelly and Darren Ellis
She also made threats to recruit someone to rape their children, court was told
At Bolton Crown Court prosecutors accepted her guilty plea to harassment
She was sentenced to a two-year community order with 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days and ordered to attend a six-month mental health programme

Lisa Cartmell, 35, stripped off and streaked around her front lawn in Farnworth near Bolton, Greater Manchester, in full view of Kelly and Darren Ellis and their four children, Bolton Crown Court heard

A ‘living nightmare’ neighbour paraded around her garden naked, flashed her breasts and made rape and death threats to the family next door.

The two-year harassment campaign began in 2019 after Cartmell moved to a rented property next door to youth worker Mrs Ellis, 35, and business manager Mr Ellis, 36.

In one incident Cartmell threatened to petrol bomb the couple’s property and recruit someone to rape their children. She had also repeatedly lifted her top to flash her breasts at the youngsters as she walked down the street outside her home.

Police arrested Cartmell in July 2021 and charged her with making threats to kill and causing a public nuisance by indecent exposure.

But prosecutors accepted her guilty plea to harassment and at Bolton Crown Court she was sentenced to a two-year community order with 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days and ordered to attend a six-month mental health programme.

As sentence was passed Cartmell, who appeared via video link from Styal women’s prison in Cheshire, said: ‘Thank you, Your Honour – I won’t do it again.’

The two-year harassment campaign began in 2019 after Cartmell moved to a rented property next door to youth worker Mrs Ellis, 35, and business manager Mr Ellis, 36 (pictured)

The judge, Mr Recorder Simon Hilton, told her: ‘This was inappropriate and at times threatening and abusive behaviour which you showed towards your neighbours.

‘There were obscene comments and gestures sometimes in front of the children and on more than one occasion you made threats to kill.

‘Mr and Mrs Ellis suffered fear and distress by what you did to them and held grave concerns about the effect of your behaviour on their children.

‘You made their lives a misery and this has left a mark on both of them.’

In a statement Mrs Ellis said: ‘Lisa’s behaviour has been seriously concerning for my family. I feel like it’s only a matter of time before something happens and I’m living on the edge worried about our safety.

‘It’s a constant worry for me because we don’t know what she’s going to do from one day to the next. It is becoming unbearable. Her being abusive and exposing herself makes me frustrated and has had impact on my work as I would come home from work worried whether she will do it again.’

Mr Ellis said: ‘For the past two years this woman has been a living nightmare for myself and the whole of my family. My children have at times been too petrified to play out in the back garden because of her behaviour.

‘She made threats to my children that she would burn our house down and I was worried she was throwing things into our garden as she was so volatile in the past.

Mr Ellis, pictured with Mrs Ellis, said: ‘For the past two years this woman has been a living nightmare for myself and the whole of my family. My children have at times been too petrified to play out in the back garden because of her behaviour

‘She always made threats to kill our dogs and one night I saw her emerging from her property naked and heard her shouting and waving her arms in an erratic state.

‘I feel angry frustrated and annoyed and fear for the safety of my children because of the way she has behaved. Children should not be seeing things like that.’

Timothy Ashmole, prosecuting, said: ‘She engaged in inappropriate and threatening behaviour.

‘Kelly rang police to say the defendant had been in her front garden behaving erratically and chanting about her children being raped. She was also in and out of her house smashing things.

‘Later Kelly was outside watering her plants whilst her children were playing in the garden when the defendant began shouting filthy remarks about the youngsters. The defendant also said she had a gun and was going to shoot Kelly.

‘Such remarks were made every other day. Kelly described occasions when the defendant exposed herself on the street with her breasts on show whilst the children played out.

‘She also described how the defendant made threats to kill her. On one occasion she got home from work at 10.30pm and saw the defendant standing naked in her front window and banging on the glass shouting: ‘I’m going to ‘f***ing kill you.’

The court head a couple living on the other side of Cartmell’s property would be woken up by her shouting and screeching from within her property.

When interviewed by police she denied any wrongdoing. She had a previous conviction for racially aggravated harassment.

In mitigation defence counsel Alistair Reid said his client who has been diagnosed with bipolar and a personality disorder had been offered new accommodation elsewhere.

He told the hearing: ‘She was struggling substantially with her mental health but there was no direct intimidation or attempts to assault anyone. Her behaviour has not escalated beyond verbal abuse and comments. ‘

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