A WOMAN is fleeing her home after a pervert neighbour who exposed himself to her almost every day won the right to move back.

The Mirror reports that former police constable Mandy Dunford was driven to despair by Kenneth Ward who followed her around her farm dressed only in socks and boots for up to eight hours a day.

Ward’s brother also left piles of maggot-infested animal carcasses outside her house.

Despite numerous complaints to police, Miss Dunford and friend Wendy Coulthard, also a former cop, eventually filmed the bachelor’s extreme behaviour with a hidden camera.

The shocking footage showed him repeating his weird ritual every day.

When officers eventually raided Ward’s house they found a loaded Luger pistol under his pillow together with a vast collection of machine guns, grenades, mortars and ammunition.

He was jailed for five years in 2011.

media_camera Victim ... Mandy Dunford media_camera Offender ... Kenneth Ward

Miss Dunford finally thought her ordeal was over as he was also subject to a restraining order - preventing him being within 200 metres of her, however, she has now learnt that he has succeeded in varying that order, allowing him to approach right up to her farm boundary.

“I will be forced to abandon my home and my life just so he can return home, I can’t see the justice in that,” she told The Northern Echo.

“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 Ward and his brother Brian were friendly towards me but that changed as I started to do up the farm, which was in a pretty poor state when I bought it. I put a gate on the lane to my land, which also runs to their cottage and after that everything changed.

“The gate seemed to enrage them and they would swing and bounce on it. They even covered it in hundreds of stickers from the bananas Brian used to eat every day, which I thought was weird but it was nothing compared to what came afterwards.

Pervert exposes himself on a rural farm

“Brian was a pest controller and started dumping animal carcasses outside my house. They were crawling with maggots and the only way I could dispose of them was to put them in a bag and carry them up onto the moor to dump them in a remote place.

“After Brian’s death over 10 years ago, Kenneth’s behaviour became more and more erratic. He first started exposing himself to me around 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.

“Sometimes he’d climb a ladder and expose himself over the wall of his cottage and once he confronted me on the lane and aimed a rifle at me. I turned and ran and heard five shots go off behind me, I was terrified.

“He had a favourite stone on the lane next to my house where 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 became the only focus of his life.

Originally published as ‘He’d climb a ladder and expose himself’