Pensioner ordered to stop throwing urine and colostomy bag contents out of window

A 76-year-old man already given an ASBO for making neighbours' lives hell has been brought back to court after complaints he threw buckets of urine from his windows. Neighbours of Kenneth Laughton were delighted when he was forced to change his ways following an interim anti-social behaviour order banning him from making excessive noise and acting in an intimidating manner. But his case was returned to Wellingborough magistraites this week following complaints he had been pouring the contents of a colostomy bag from his upstairs window.

And now long-suffering residents of Pretoria Cottages, in Raunds Road, Chelveston, say they want the situation dealt with once and for all. One neighbour, who asked not be named, said: "All we want is for him to be quiet, and since he's been on the interim Asbo it has been like living in a different place, but I have seen the urine go out of the window. "He's got a bag and he empties it out of the window, which makes it smell."



While a full ASBO hearing will not take place until next February, the police went before Wellingborough Magistrates' Court again on Monday to seek permission to vary the conditions of the interim order. Susanna Rickard, for the prosecution, said: "He is constantly watering on his garden and neighbour's fence, for several hours in the day, and that has started to rot the fence, despite it only being six years old. He is also emptying urine out from his top floor window."

Presiding Magistrate, Bob Patel, said he felt monitoring excessive watering of a garden would be difficult to police, but that the condition to prevent him throwing urine from his window, or committing any socially unacceptable behaviour, would be added to the interim order. Laughton, who was not present in court, will undergo a psychiatric assessment ahead of a hearing next year to determine his mental state.