A "loner" has been given a four-year anti-social behaviour order for plaguing his neighbours with noise caused by a bizarre network of door chimes.
Unemployed Anthony Walsh, 59, would sit on a settee in his "shambolic" front room, with at least six £1 door bells within easy reach, and press them at intervals throughout the night, Bingley magistrates heard.
Tunes such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star rang out from speakers up the stairs of his home and in his cellar kitchen and through the walls of the house in Bishop Street, Heaton, Bradford, the court was told yesterday.
Walsh said he bought the door chimes at a 'pound' shop and set them up to repel mice, which had infested his home, and as a "pay back" to gangs of youths playing loud music in the street behind his house.
He said: "It was my way of saying I don't even have to leave my seat for you to hear me."
But after a five-year campaign of harassment by Walsh, which included using a hammer to bang on the adjoining walls, playing loud music and littering an adjoining garden, his neighbours called in Bradford Council environmental health officers and the police to put an end to his antics.
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