A WOMAN accused of making her neighbours’ lives a misery has been cleared of two charges by a jury.

Judith Wildwood, 58, went on trial at Carlisle Crown Court having denied three allegations. These related to alleged incidents at Braystones, near Egremont, where Wildwood owns a property.

After hearing all the evidence in the case, a jury of 10 women and two men returned unanimous verdicts on Tuesday.

Wildwood was found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment against Tomasz Biedka on December 30, last year.

She was also cleared of breaching a restraining order by approaching the home of Mr Biedka and his partner, Suzie Brook.

However, Wildwood, of Inglenook Caravan Park, Lamplugh, was convicted of breaching a separate restraining order by entering an “exclusion zone” at North Beach.

Recorder Jeremy Lasker imposed a 12-month community order for that offence. Wildwood must complete 50 hours of unpaid work and pay £1,260 costs.

Wildwood had denied both of the alleged restraining order breaches following incidents on October 3. In evidence she stated that she made “every effort” to comply with the stringent terms of each – often in the face of fierce provocation from others.

When it was suggested she did stray into an area of North Beach, Wildwood claimed: “I have never previously infringed this order – not by an inch or a minute.”

In relation to the second alleged breach, on the same day, Wildwood admitted she did enter an area near their home that she was prohibited from entering.

But she claimed she did so only by a matter of yards as she tried to retrieve her dog.

Wildwood was accused during the trial by prosecutor Brendan Burke of “winding people up” in and around Braystones, though she said she was “more sinned against than sinning”.