As bizarre as this sounds, this pensioner believed his neighbours were jealous of his wealth. So he annoyed them by playing songs on the loop and by placing a ''fat lady'' figurine in his garden.

Barry Carr, 66, despised his neighbours so much that he hid spy-cameras and played two songs over and over again... pretty much just to do their heads in.

The pensioner would move his ''fat lady'' pottery figurine every morning and evening so that his neighbours would see it.

Carr went even further and built a 20ft flagpole at his house in Fleetwood, UK, and on top placed an image of his neighbour, David Smith, on top. He also went ahead and littered his garden with ornaments such as chattering teeth and a large owl.

Mr Smith's partner, Jennifer, revealed that the ''fat lady'' figurine looked like her, hence why he ''tormented'' her for months with it.

She said:

“We moved in five years ago. The first six months were OK and we exchanged Christmas cards.

''Then we started to distance ourselves from him and realised he was filming us day in day out 365 days a year. The music was so bad I could not go into the garden during the summer. I was getting scared to leave home.''

Carr, on the other hand, didn't see all of this as ''harassment'' and claimed that he was using the camera ''for my own protection''. He accused his neighbours of calling him ''nasty names''.

Carr received a ten-week jail term, according to The Times. And was ordered to pay his neighbours £200 each compensation and £900 court costs.

He was warned not to display images of them, to have cameras evidently pointing at them and was told not to play loud music and torment them again.

David Hearton, chairman of the bench, said:

''Some of these issues may seem trivial individually but together they become much more serious. It was like the dripping tap syndrome, time after time after time causing stress and distress.''