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Pervert drove farmer out of her home after he exposed himself every day for NINE years
Former police constable Mandy Dunford, 54, was driven to despair by Kenneth Ward, 67, who followed her around her smallholding dressed only in socks and boots
Neighbour problems:
A farmer is fleeing her home after a pervert neighbour who exposed himself to her almost every day for NINE YEARS won the right to live next door again.
Former police constable Mandy Dunford, 54, was driven to despair by Kenneth Ward, 67, who followed her around her smallholding dressed only in socks and boots for up to eight hours a day.
His brother also left piles of maggot-infested animal carcasses outside her home.
Shameless Ward would stand on “sentry duty” dressed in army fatigues and shouldering a rifle outside her window for hours on end.
Mandy refused to be driven out of her property and filmed him as he tried to make her quit the modest nine acre farm where she keeps livestock.
She and her pal Wendy Coulthard, 54, another retired cop, trapped Ward using a hidden camera.
The shocking footage showed him repeating his weird ritual every day.
During one of the coldest winters on record, he stood half naked in deep snow at his ramshackle property less than 200 yards from her home.
Cops finally raided Ward’s dilapidated home, which sits in a remote corner of the North York Moors National Park.
As the eccentric military expert - who ran a museum from his home - was arrested a huge cache of bombs and live ammo was discovered, including a loaded Luger pistol under his pillow and an aircraft cockpit with functioning loaded guns.
RAF bomb squad officers were brought in to carry out controlled explosions.
Ward was jailed for five years at Teesside Crown Court in 2011, and Mandy thought the ordeal, which lasted nine years and began in 2002, was finally over.
But now she has discovered to her horror that he is free to return to his home - which shares a lane with her own farm - after his restraining order was changed.
In desperation she is preparing to leave the smallholding - after ploughing her savings into it - and will move into a semi-derelict home at a secret moorland location rather than face him again.
Mandy said: “I feel yet again that the offender has been given more rights than the victim.
“My punishment for his crimes has been far worse than anything he has ever faced - I’m losing my home so that he can return to his.”
She added: “It was my dream to have my own smallholding when I left the force and the farm was perfect, I expected to live here for the rest of my life with my animals around me.”
At first Kenneth and brother Brian were friendly towards her. But a new gate seemed to ‘enrage’ them.
“Brian was a pest controller and he started dumping animal carcasses outside my house,” she recalled. “They were crawling with maggots and I had to bag them and carry them up onto the moor to dump them in a remote place.
“Sometimes by the time I’d got back down again there would be another pile in place of the first one.
“After Brian’s death, Kenneth started exposing himself to me in 2002 and would peer in through my windows with his wild staring eyes.
“He’d run around the house at night shouting and tapping on the windows. When I was working during the day he’d come right up to me and follow me around wearing nothing but boots and socks.
No love lost: Mandy says she has no choice but to move out
“Sometimes he’d climb a ladder and expose himself over the wall of his cottage.
“He used to stand to watch me with his pants down and shirt pulled up. He’d stand there for hours and hours every day, terrorising me."
She went four times to Stokesley police station but it only resulted in warnings for Ward, which, she claims, only made his behaviour worse.
She and Mrs Coulthard rigged up hidden cameras around the farm, taking the footage they collected over the course of months to North Yorkshire police.
Ward was arrested and jailed after admitting 11 counts of exposure, three charges of possessing a prohibited firearm and seven other firearms offences.
At the hearing in December 2011 a Sexual Offences Prevention Order was made which prevented Ward from coming within 200 metres of Mandy.
As his cottage is only 176 metres from her home it meant he would never be able to return.
However in a hearing held since the sentencing, that order was varied and a new boundary was drawn up that would allow Ward to approach her farm from all sides right up to its boundary.
She said: “It means he can follow me around with only the width of a wire fence between us. When I heard the order had been changed I was horrified and I knew my only option was to pack up and leave.
“I will be forced to abandon my home and my life just so that he can return home, I can’t see the justice in that and I want to know why the rights of a man who tortured me for so long are more important than mine.”
Five North Yorkshire police officers who failed to respond effectively to her original reports were criticised in an internal disciplinary enquiry which concluded they failed to meet “appropriate” investigation standards.
The report said: “It must serve as a reminder to North Yorkshire Police to periodically review how officers carry out their investigations and how North Yorkshire Police expects managers to supervise their staff.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pervert-drove-farmer-out-home-5468433
Pervert drove farmer out of her home after he exposed himself every day for NINE years
Former police constable Mandy Dunford, 54, was driven to despair by Kenneth Ward, 67, who followed her around her smallholding dressed only in socks and boots
Neighbour problems:
A farmer is fleeing her home after a pervert neighbour who exposed himself to her almost every day for NINE YEARS won the right to live next door again.
Former police constable Mandy Dunford, 54, was driven to despair by Kenneth Ward, 67, who followed her around her smallholding dressed only in socks and boots for up to eight hours a day.
His brother also left piles of maggot-infested animal carcasses outside her home.
Shameless Ward would stand on “sentry duty” dressed in army fatigues and shouldering a rifle outside her window for hours on end.
Mandy refused to be driven out of her property and filmed him as he tried to make her quit the modest nine acre farm where she keeps livestock.
She and her pal Wendy Coulthard, 54, another retired cop, trapped Ward using a hidden camera.
The shocking footage showed him repeating his weird ritual every day.
During one of the coldest winters on record, he stood half naked in deep snow at his ramshackle property less than 200 yards from her home.
Cops finally raided Ward’s dilapidated home, which sits in a remote corner of the North York Moors National Park.
As the eccentric military expert - who ran a museum from his home - was arrested a huge cache of bombs and live ammo was discovered, including a loaded Luger pistol under his pillow and an aircraft cockpit with functioning loaded guns.
RAF bomb squad officers were brought in to carry out controlled explosions.
Ward was jailed for five years at Teesside Crown Court in 2011, and Mandy thought the ordeal, which lasted nine years and began in 2002, was finally over.
But now she has discovered to her horror that he is free to return to his home - which shares a lane with her own farm - after his restraining order was changed.
In desperation she is preparing to leave the smallholding - after ploughing her savings into it - and will move into a semi-derelict home at a secret moorland location rather than face him again.
Mandy said: “I feel yet again that the offender has been given more rights than the victim.
“My punishment for his crimes has been far worse than anything he has ever faced - I’m losing my home so that he can return to his.”
She added: “It was my dream to have my own smallholding when I left the force and the farm was perfect, I expected to live here for the rest of my life with my animals around me.”
At first Kenneth and brother Brian were friendly towards her. But a new gate seemed to ‘enrage’ them.
“Brian was a pest controller and he started dumping animal carcasses outside my house,” she recalled. “They were crawling with maggots and I had to bag them and carry them up onto the moor to dump them in a remote place.
“Sometimes by the time I’d got back down again there would be another pile in place of the first one.
“After Brian’s death, Kenneth started exposing himself to me in 2002 and would peer in through my windows with his wild staring eyes.
“He’d run around the house at night shouting and tapping on the windows. When I was working during the day he’d come right up to me and follow me around wearing nothing but boots and socks.
No love lost: Mandy says she has no choice but to move out
“Sometimes he’d climb a ladder and expose himself over the wall of his cottage.
“He used to stand to watch me with his pants down and shirt pulled up. He’d stand there for hours and hours every day, terrorising me."
She went four times to Stokesley police station but it only resulted in warnings for Ward, which, she claims, only made his behaviour worse.
She and Mrs Coulthard rigged up hidden cameras around the farm, taking the footage they collected over the course of months to North Yorkshire police.
Ward was arrested and jailed after admitting 11 counts of exposure, three charges of possessing a prohibited firearm and seven other firearms offences.
At the hearing in December 2011 a Sexual Offences Prevention Order was made which prevented Ward from coming within 200 metres of Mandy.
As his cottage is only 176 metres from her home it meant he would never be able to return.
However in a hearing held since the sentencing, that order was varied and a new boundary was drawn up that would allow Ward to approach her farm from all sides right up to its boundary.
She said: “It means he can follow me around with only the width of a wire fence between us. When I heard the order had been changed I was horrified and I knew my only option was to pack up and leave.
“I will be forced to abandon my home and my life just so that he can return home, I can’t see the justice in that and I want to know why the rights of a man who tortured me for so long are more important than mine.”
Five North Yorkshire police officers who failed to respond effectively to her original reports were criticised in an internal disciplinary enquiry which concluded they failed to meet “appropriate” investigation standards.
The report said: “It must serve as a reminder to North Yorkshire Police to periodically review how officers carry out their investigations and how North Yorkshire Police expects managers to supervise their staff.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pervert-drove-farmer-out-home-5468433
