HELLISH neighbour Jane Elcock has been ordered to leave her home after two years of obnoxious behaviour.

The young mum will be evicted from her Imperial Court house, at Clifton, York, after a court heard of how she made other residents' lives miserable.

One neighbour, James Tupling, has been relocated after a catalogue of complaints of loud music and harassment.

His ordeal culminated when a paving slab was thrown through his window after a fight with Elcock's cousin, Gary Illingworth.

Illingworth and his mother, Tracey, could now face jail if they threaten Mr Tupling again after a Judge made six-month injunctions against them.

After hearing how the family laid siege to Mr Tupling's house, Judge John Cockroft told the Illingworths: "This was an utterly unacceptable piece of behaviour in a civilised society."

Elcock, 22, must leave her home within weeks after a court heard how she persistently flouted an order not to be a nuisance neighbour.

York County Court was told she played music so loudly by day and night that it made other residents' lives a misery.

Tenant enforcement officer Neil McFarlane described the noise as "unbearable" when he paid her a visit earlier this year.

Judge Cockroft said Elcock's house was also a "magnet" for gangs of youths, who repeatedly shouted abuse at anyone who challenged them.

Elcock, whose cousin is Clifton Asbo teenager Shaun Illingworth, had already been handed a suspended possession order of her home after landlord, Tees Valley Housing Group, brought her case to court last year.

Dismissing her application to suspend the warrant for eviction, Judge Cockroft said: "She should have appreciated that if she wanted to keep her house she would have to be very disciplined in the way in which she behaved. She has now lost that opportunity."

Elcock said she had not realised how loud her music was, and that youths sometimes came to her garden when she was not there.

Her aunt, Tracey Illingworth, and son, Gary Illingworth, were handed six-month injunctions after her neighbour made an official complaint about her behaviour.

The court heard how Elcock had called her neighbour a "police grass" when she learned of his complaint.

Later that evening, Illingworth had gone round to his cousin's house when a fight broke out between him and the neighbour, which left Illingworth with two black eyes.

After Illingworth fled the scene he found his mother in a local pub, and the pair returned to his house where Tracey Illingworth banged on his door and shouted at him through his letterbox.

A crowd gathered to watch the drama and a paving slab was hurled through the neighbour's window, but there was no evidence to say who had thrown it.

Updated: 10:17 Friday, July 22, 2005