'Tit for tat' neighbour dispute in Glasgow's Govan ends up in court

Sean O'Halloran and Angela Ferguson appeared in the dock together last week after a war of words with two nearby neighbours.

On December 16, 2020, police were contacted due to a noise complaint.

Officers turned up to Drumoyne Place in Govan to take a statement from witnesses before leaving again.

A short time later Ferguson turned up at the property too.

She began to shout and swear so the witness closed the door of the property and police were called out again.

O'Halloran then began to kick the door while Ferguson continued to shout and swear at the witness.

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Ferguson shouted: "You hit me first you p***k, come out you cow, come out and I'll see you, come out, I'm going to batter your c**t in."

She then added: "You're getting done, you p***k."

When cops arrived back at the scene both O'Halloran and Ferguson were arrested, cautioned and charged.

On June 30, 2021, around 1pm, the witnesses were outside Drumoyne Place.

O'Halloran saw them and shouted: "What the f**k are you looking at?"

She replied that there was no problem but the 20-year-old shouted again: "Now have you got a problem?"

The neighbour then said "why do you want to fight all the time?" and moved to the back of the property to avoid any further confrontation.

Cops were called out and O'Halloran was later arrested, cautioned and charged for breaching his bail conditions.

O'Halloran's defence lawyer said there was a history between the neighbours and earlier the witnesses had been at his client's home behaving in a threatening manner.

He said: "This was a tit for tat situation."

In relation to the breach of bail, the lawyer said O'Halloran had been cycling past his neighbour's home when a "brief exchange of words" took place.

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O'Halloran and Ferguson, both from Govan, have since moved from the street and there have been no further issues, the court heard.

Ferguson's solicitor said there had been a neighbour dispute that was causing "considerable stress" to Ferguson and "things came to a head".

The 40-year-old had been assaulted and suffered a black eye, he added.

Sheriff Jonathan Guy placed O'Halloran on a community payback order with 18 months of supervision and he will have to return to court for a review in one month.

Ferguson's sentence was deferred for three months to allow her to be of good behaviour.