Woman stuck used sanitary towel on neighbour’s door in dispute, court heard

King's Lynn magistrates' court. Picture: Chris Bishop Archant

A neighbourly dispute led to a woman sticking a used sanitary towel on her neighbour’s door, a court has heard.

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Linsey Scoles, 29, of Pleasant Court, King’s Lynn, pleaded guilty to criminal damage when she appeared in King’s Lynn magistrates’ court on Monday, January 15.

Prosecutor Fergus Harold said on December 15 last year, at around 4.50pm, Scoles was leaning out of her window having a loud argument with her mother.

The victim, who lived on the same block in a flat above the defendant, asked Scoles to “keep the noise down” as she had a three-year-old daughter in the flat who could hear the shouting and swearing. “The defendant took this quite badly,” Mr Harold added, “Five to 10 minutes later the victim tried to look through her spy hole and found that it was covered by a used sanitary towel, which ended up on the floor.”

Mr Harold said Scoles had also shouted abuse at the victim and written graffiti on the victim’s door using a pen.

“In police interview, she mostly made admissions, she said her upstairs neighbour had shouted telling her to be quiet.

“She admitted to writing on the door in pen and in relation to the very unpleasant aspect of the used sanitary towel she said she does not know anything about that.

“This was very upsetting for the victim, she said in her statement that she felt disgusted and very upset. She said she wasn’t rude at all to the defendant. “This was an unpleasant and distressing incident for the victim.” Mr Harold added.

Alison Muir, mitigating for Scoles, said this was a minor neighbourhood dispute that escalated.

Ms Muir added that Scoles had been dealing with personal matters but that her behaviour has improved, adding: “She accepts her wrongdoing.”

Chairman of the bench David Williams handed Scoles a conditional discharge of 12 months. She was also ordered to pay £50 compensation to the victim, £40 court costs and £30 victim surcharge.

Mr Williams told the defendant: “This is not a pleasant incident and it doesn’t show you in the best of light.”